In Australia, class divisions are not simpleClass differences in America help explain US President Donald Trump’s victory and the Democrats’ failure to connect with blue collar workersIn Australia, "class cluelessness" is not a problem of the white working class, it is a problem of the professional managerial class, says University of NSW social policy researcher Ian Watson. The loss of manufacturing jobs has created an antagonism in the traditional working class to free trade and laissez fair economics. "But they do not have that same individualistic career orientation that you find in the professional managerial class. However, the gulf between the traditional working class and professional managerial class has widened and the Australian Labor movement has drifted further away from socially conservative views held by the traditional working class, while embracing many of the more progressive social values held by the professional managerial class. In Australia, class divisions are not simple.

Source: Stuff January 09, 2018 01:18 UTC