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Chavs : the demonization of the working class / Owen Jones.
Lippincott Library HD8391 .J67 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Owen (Owen Peter), 1984-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--Great Britain--Social conditions--21st century.
- Working class.
- Working class--Press coverage--Great Britain.
- Public opinion.
- Press coverage.
- Social conditions.
- Great Britain--Economic conditions.
- Great Britain.
- Economic conditions.
- Working class--Great Britain--Public opinion.
- Physical Description:
- 298 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Verso, 2011.
- Summary:
- "In this groundbreaking investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth'. Moving through Westminster 's lobbies and working-class communities from Dagenham to Dewsbury Moor, Jones lays bare the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, and reveals a far more complex reality: the increasing poverty and desperation of people left abandoned by the aspirational, society-fragmenting policies of both the Tories and the New Labour. A damning indictment of the media and political establishment, Chavs is an illuminating, disturbing portrait of inequality and class hatred in modern Britain."--P. [4] of cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The strange case of Shannon Matthews
- Class warriors
- Politicians vs chavs
- A class in the stocks
- 'We're all middle class now'
- A rigged society
- Broken Britain
- Backlash
- Conclusion : a new class of politics?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781844676965
- 184467696X
- OCLC:
- 668194635
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