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class.
In previous books, published in 2004 and 2010,
Guilluy gathered data showing how large swaths of
France have fallen behind. Outside the 15 or so
thriving cities, these regions tend to have higher
levels of poverty, unemployment, temporary jobs
and poor infrastructure. This is where the losers
from globalisation live blue-collar workers in
labour intensive industries while the likes of
Paris and Bordeaux attract graduates, high-earning
service jobs and start-ups.
This has given way to a sense of industrial and
cultural decline, according to the author. In these
disenfranchised corners of France, an increasing
number of residents abstain from voting or are
tempted by Ms Le Pens protectionist, antiimmigration rhetoric.
Guilluy wonders why peripheral France, which he
estimates is 60 per cent of the population, has not
forced the elites to put the brakes on globalisation
or limit its negative effects. His answer is that the
elites have been supported by the bo-bos.
The system does not rely on the elites only but also
on an important part of the population, a new
bourgeoisie, that resides in large cities and that
supported all the economic choices of the elite for
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