Working-class men define the poor by pay frequency, housing, and schooling

Evidence

By and large those in the lower orders are those who are paid daily (not weekly) or are on relief; they live in slums or in public housing projects (but not middle income projects); they do not live respectable lives; they have only grammar school education; they may have no regular jobs. Closer to home, those slightly lower in status are people like “The lady next door who has a little less than I have,” the man who can’t afford to take care of his kids properly in the project, people who spend their money on liquor, the person with less skill in the same line of work. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2225 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Working-class people define ‘lower class’ by visible daily-life markers not income — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2225; Mainstream framing of class as income and status obscures the working class’s existence — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 84

Broader Connections

• Working-class people define ‘lower class’ by visible daily-life markers not income #corroborates (0.95) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2225