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1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-221) and index. |
| Contents |
Dangerous youth and the dangerous class / Robert MacDonald -- Young people and the labour market / Malcolm Maguire and Susan Maguire -- Is there an emerging British 'underclass'? The evidence from youth research / Ken Roberts -- Underclassed or undermined? Young people and social citizenship / Hartley Dean -- Status zer0 youth and the 'underclass': some consideration / Howard Williamson -- The formation of an underclass or disparate processes of social exclusion? Evidence from two groupings of 'vulnerable youth' / Debbie Baldwin, Bob Coles and Wendy Mitrchell -- Youth homelessness and the 'underclass' Gill Jones -- 'Destructing a giro' a critical ethnographic study of the youth 'underclass' / Shane J. Blackman -- The 'Black magic roundabout': cyclical transitions, social exclusion and alternative careers / Steve Craine -- Changing their ways: youth work and 'underclass' theory / Tony Jeffs -- Youth, social exclusion and the millennium / Robert MacDonnald. |
| Summary |
The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of "decent" working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990s. Anti-work, anti-social, and welfare dependent cultures are said to typify this new "dangerous class" and "dangerous youth" are taken as the prime subjects of underclass theories. Debates about the family and single-parenthood, about crime and about unemployment and welfare reforms have all become embroiled in underclass theories which, whilst highly controversial, have had remarkable influence on the politics and policies of governments in Britain and the US. This text addresses the underclass idea in relation to contemporary youth. It focuses upon unemployment, training, the labour market, crime, homelessness, and parenting. It should be of interest to students of social policy, sociology and criminology. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Youth with social disabilities -- Great Britain.
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Youth with social disabilities. |
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Great Britain. |
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Urban poor -- Great Britain.
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Urban poor. |
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Hard-core unemployed -- Great Britain.
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Hard-core unemployed. |
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Marginality, Social -- Great Britain.
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Marginality, Social. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
MacDonald, Robert, 1962-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Youth, the 'underclass' and social exclusion. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997 (DLC) 97001608 |
| ISBN |
041515829X |
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9780415158299 |
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0415158303 (paperback) |
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9780415158305 (paperback) |
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0203132998 (electronic book) |
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9780203132999 (electronic book) |
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1280408103 |
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9781280408106 |
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