Underclass : a history of the excluded, 1880-2000

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    • Welshman, John

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Underclass : a history of the excluded, 1880-2000

John Welshman

Hambledon Continuum, 2006

  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-256) and index

内容説明・目次

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ISBN 9781852853228

内容説明

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. In Underclass 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 concepts, but also striking continuities. Indeed a concern with an 'underclass' has is many ways been as long as an interest in poverty itself. This book is the first to look systematically at the question, providing new insights on contemporary debates about behaviour, poverty and welfare reform.
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: pbk ISBN 9781852855543

内容説明

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. In "Underclass: A History of the Excluded, 1880-2000", 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 concepts, but also striking continuities. Indeed a concern with an 'underclass' has is many ways been as long as an interest in poverty itself. This book is the first to look systematically at the question, providing new insights on contemporary debates about behaviour, poverty and welfare reform. In a speech in 2006, Tony Blair signalled a major push on social exclusion. He aimed to show the Government's determination to tackle 'a hard core underclass' estimated at 1 m people. The focus in Whitehall had moved to what were termed 'high-risk, high-harm and high-cost families', and to children in care, teenage mothers, and people with mental health problems on benefit. In all of this, the rhetoric of a 'cycle of deprivation', and of inter-generational continuities, was ever-present, and it is those continuities that this book seeks to explore.

目次

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Regulating the Residuum
  • 2 A Trojan Horse
  • 3 In Search of the Social Problem Group
  • 4 The Invention of the Problem Family
  • 5 Chasing the Culture of Poverty
  • 6 Sir Keith Joseph and the Cycle of Deprivation
  • 7 Uncovering the Underclass - America
  • 8 Uncovering the Underclass - Britain
  • 9 Social Exclusion and Cycles of Disadvantage
  • 10 Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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