num_pages: 132
description: In 1990 John Major hailed 'the classless society'; in 1997 New Labour announced that 'we're all middle class now' yet we live in an age where food banks pay day lenders and zero-hour contracts proliferate: it's clear that class matters. Foregrounding the economic nature of class Split challenges the idea that class can be reduced to the cultural. From precarious labour to rising debt; from the housing crisis to environmental catastrophe; from an inflated prison population to the welfare state; Ben Tippet traces the class divide at the heart of all exploitation. Myth-busting meritocracy he exposes the role that tax havens colonialism and inheritance play in the wealth of the elite. Split highlights the potential for a diverse and eclectic working-class bloc to fight back in an age of austerity and uncertainty.
language: English
title: Split: Class Divides Uncovered
publisher: Pluto Press