Abstract:This articles makes a contribution to the seeming economic puzzle around workers‘ far-right vote. Drawing on 75 qualitative interviews with Austrian and German blue-collar workers, it highlights that the core question moving workers‘ socio-economic policy preferences is about the value of work. There are, however, multiple ideological ways of addressing this question. One of these is „exclusivist“ and typical for the far-right: it goes with a narrow materialistic framing of the value of work and a demand of sa… Show more
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