Tenement Nation: Working-Class Cosmopolitanism in Edinburgh

Around the world, blue-collar politics have become associated with resistance to the multicultural. While this may also be true in Edinburgh, Scotland, a closer look reveals the growth of liberal democratic ideals in the working-class population, which has a much different goal: How can this European city keep the entrepreneurial forces of globalization from commodifying what is distinctly theirs?

In Tenement Nation, Christa Ballard Tooley explores the battle for a neighborhood called the Ca...