Towards a Classless Society?

ISBN-13: 9780415153317 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 248 str.

Helen Jones

Opis

In recent years, the Right has made all the running in the debate over class with its rhetoric of a classless society coupled with the notion of an underclass; it was not always so. The issue of class has been a long-standing tool of analysis for social commentators and historians of all shades of opinion, as well as an inspiration for fundamental social change. By covering young people and their poverty, health, education and training, homelessness, youth crime and young single mothers, this book underlines the role played by the labour market in influencing an individual's life chances, and the way in which labour market position is closely linked to class position. This book provides an alternative to the right-wing paradigm which has highjacked discussions of class; and by focusing on the specific ways in which class inequalities manifest themselves in 1990s Britain, it exposes the hollowness of politicians' rhetoric over the classless society.

Recenzje

'Packed with information and statistics about the growth and impact of class inequalities which will be invaluable for social science students wishing to counter the arguments of rightwing or postmodernist lecturers.' - Socialist Review

Spis treści

Series Editor's Preface 1. Introduction 2. Young People, class and poverty 3. The right start: Poverty, health and education 4. Education and the reproduction of class-based inequalities 5. Youth training 6. Youth homelessness: Marginalising the marginalised? 7. Youth crime, social change and social class in Britain and France in the 1980s and 1990s 8. Young single mothers 9. British social work and the classless society: The failure of a profession 10. Towards a classless society?

O autorze

Helen Jones