Chavs
Subtitle: The Demonization of the Working Class
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781844676965
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: 1
label: Introduction; label: 1
pagenum: 13
title: The Strange Case of Shannon Matthews; label: 2
pagenum: 39
title: Class Warriors; label: 3
pagenum: 73
title: Politicians vs Chavs; label: 4
pagenum: 109
title: A Class in the Stocks; label: 5
pagenum: 139
title: 'We're all middle lass now'; label: 6
pagenum: 169
title: A Rigged Society; label: 7
pagenum: 185
title: Broken Britain; label: 8
pagenum: 221
title: Backlash; title: 247
label: Conclusion: A New Class Politics; title: 271
label: Notes; title: 283
label: Acknowledgements; title: 285
label: Index