'It was in the counties where the highest number of jobs were lost because of the China shock,' Adam Tooze writes in the current edition of the London Review of Books, 'that Trump scored best in the 2016 election.' What Tooze seems to have thrown his immense intellectual weight behind is a theory of US politics that traces the white working class revolt that put Trump in the White House to the China shock. 'Thanks to the painstaking work of labour economists we can trace, county by county,' he writes, 'the impact of Chinese imports and the loss of factory jobs across the US.'
Does the China Shock Explain the Trump Swing?
Does the China Shock Explain the Trump Swing?
Does the China Shock Explain the Trump Swing?
'It was in the counties where the highest number of jobs were lost because of the China shock,' Adam Tooze writes in the current edition of the London Review of Books, 'that Trump scored best in the 2016 election.' What Tooze seems to have thrown his immense intellectual weight behind is a theory of US politics that traces the white working class revolt that put Trump in the White House to the China shock. 'Thanks to the painstaking work of labour economists we can trace, county by county,' he writes, 'the impact of Chinese imports and the loss of factory jobs across the US.'