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Youth, the 'underclass' and social exclusion / edited by Robert MacDonald.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth with social disabilities--Great Britain.
- Youth with social disabilities.
- Urban poor--Great Britain.
- Urban poor.
- Hard-core unemployed--Great Britain.
- Hard-core unemployed.
- Marginality, Social--Great Britain.
- Marginality, Social.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of `decent' working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990's. Anti-work, anti-social, and welfare dependent cultures are said to typify this new `dangerous class' and `dangerous youth' are taken as the prime subjects of underclass theories. Debates about the family and single-parenthood, about crime and about unemployment and welfare reforms have all become embroiled in under
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Dangerous youth and the dangerous class; 2 Young people and the labour market; 3 Is there an emerging British underclass The evidence from youth research; 4 Underclassed or undermined Young people and social citizenship; 5 Status Zer0 youth and the underclass Some considerations; 6 The formation of an underclass or disparate processes of social exclusion Evidence from two groupings of vulnerable youth; 7 Youth homelessness and the underclass; 8 Destructing a giro A critical and ethnographic study of the youth underclass
- 9 The 'Black Magic Roundabout' 10 Changing their ways Youth work and underclass theory; 11 Youth social exclusion and the millennium; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-72628-7
- 1-134-72629-5
- 1-280-40810-3
- 9786610408108
- 0-203-13299-8
- 9780203132999
- OCLC:
- 57720480
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