Chavs : the demonization of the working class / Owen Jones
2011
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Title
Chavs : the demonization of the working class / Owen Jones
ISBN
9781844676965 (pbk.)
184467696X (pbk.)
184467696X (pbk.)
Imprint
London ; New York : Verso, 2011.
Language
English
Description
298 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
HD8391 .J66 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.5/620941
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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?
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?