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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
July 15, 2011
Pages
298
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781844676965
ISBN-10
184467696X
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
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Out of Print
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Great Britain
Original list price
$23.95
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§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britainâs Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become stereotyped by one, hate-filled word: chavs.
In this groundbreaking investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from âsalt of the earthâ to âscum of the earth.â Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, one based on the mediaâs inexhaustible obsession with an indigent white underclass, he portrays a far more complex reality. Moving through Westminsterâs lobbies and working-class communities from Dagenham to Dewsbury Moor, Jones reveals the increasing poverty and desperation of communities made precarious by wrenching social and industrial change, and all but abandoned by the aspirational, society-fragmenting policies of Thatcherism and New Labour. The chav stereotype, he argues, is used by governments as a convenient figleaf to avoid genuine engagement with social and economic problems, and to justify widening inequality.
Based on a wealth of original research, and wide-ranging interviews with media figures, political opinion-formers and workers, Chavs is a damning indictment of the media and political establishment, and an illuminating, disturbing portrait of inequality and class hatred in modern Britain.
In this groundbreaking investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from âsalt of the earthâ to âscum of the earth.â Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, one based on the mediaâs inexhaustible obsession with an indigent white underclass, he portrays a far more complex reality. Moving through Westminsterâs lobbies and working-class communities from Dagenham to Dewsbury Moor, Jones reveals the increasing poverty and desperation of communities made precarious by wrenching social and industrial change, and all but abandoned by the aspirational, society-fragmenting policies of Thatcherism and New Labour. The chav stereotype, he argues, is used by governments as a convenient figleaf to avoid genuine engagement with social and economic problems, and to justify widening inequality.
Based on a wealth of original research, and wide-ranging interviews with media figures, political opinion-formers and workers, Chavs is a damning indictment of the media and political establishment, and an illuminating, disturbing portrait of inequality and class hatred in modern Britain.
Editions
Paperback
from Verso Books (April 26, 2016)
9781784783778 | details & prices | 304 pages | 4.00 × 6.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.82 lbs | List price $15.95
Updated edition from Verso Books (May 22, 2012)
9781844678648 | details & prices | 300 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $19.95
About: In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule.
About: In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule.
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from Verso Books (July 15, 2011)
9781844676965 | details & prices | 298 pages | 5.75 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $23.95
About: In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule.
About: In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule.
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