1st Edition

Towards a Classless Society?

Edited By Helen Jones Copyright 1997
    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    An alternative to the right-wing paradigm which has hijacked discussions of class, this book focuses on the specific ways in which class inequalities manifest themselves in Britain and exposes the hollowness if politicians' rhetoric over the classless society.

    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?

    Biography

    Helen Jones

    '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