Underclass
A History of the Excluded Since 1880
Who are those at the bottom of society? There has been much discussion in recent years, on both Left and Right, about the existence of an alleged 'underclass' in both Britain and the USA. It has been claimed this group lives outside the mainstream of society, is characterised by crime, suffers from long-term unemployment and single parenthood, and is alienated from its core values.John Welshman shows that there have always been concerns about an 'underclass', whether constructed as the 'social residuum' of the 1880s, the 'problem family' of the 1950s or the 'cycle of deprivation' of the 1970s. There are marked differences between these concep…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4725-0498-2
- EAN: 9781472504982
- Produktnummer: 17036052
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 6'132 KB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
Über den Autor
John Welshman is senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University and the author of Municipal Medicine: Public Health in Twentieth-Century Britain.
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