Chavs
First published 2011
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"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,
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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.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Owen Peter Jones
- First published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Verso
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9781844676965