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Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones (Paperback, 2011)
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In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become stereotyped by one, hate-filled word: chavs. In this groundbreaking investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from salt of the earthA to scum of the earth.A Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, one based on the media's inexhaustible obsession with an indigent white underclass, he portrays a far more complex reality. Moving through Westminster's lobbies and working-class communities from Dagenham to Dewsbury Moor, Jones reveals the increasing poverty and desperation of communities made precarious by wrenching social and industrial change, and all but abandoned by the aspirational, society-fragmenting policies of Thatcherism and New Labour. The chav stereotype, he argues, is used by governments as a convenient figleaf to avoid genuine engagement with social and economic problems, and to justify widening inequality. Based on a wealth of original research, and wide-ranging interviews with media figures, political opinion-formers and workers, Chavs is a damning indictment of the media and political establishment, and an illuminating, disturbing portrait of inequality and class hatred in modern Britain.Product Identifiers
PublisherVerso Books
ISBN-10184467696X
ISBN-139781844676965
eBay Product ID (ePID)178220664
Product Key Features
Book TitleChavs : the Demonization of the Working Class
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPolitical Economy, Social Classes & Economic Disparity
Publication Year2011
GenreSocial Science, Political Science
AuthorOwen Jones
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height228 mm
Item Weight13 oz.
Item Length9 in
Item Width155 mm
Additional Product Features
Subject AreaSocial Organisations
Intended AudienceTrade
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 17 Oct, 2018
Interesting read
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- 30 May, 2024
Quality fine for a used book.
Quality fine for a used book.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 12 May, 2016
Great essay on economics and sociology.
It's an easy-reading book as well as an interesting analysis on last decades social, political and economic movements.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
