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Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class is a non-fiction work by the British writer and political commentator Owen Jones, first published in 2011. It discusses stereotypes of sections of the British working class (and the working class as a whole) and use of the pejorative term chav.
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Jul 15, 2011 · 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. Show more.
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Aug 17, 2020 · 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, society-fragmenting policies of both the ...
From Little Britain’s 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...
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This brilliant book examines the rise of ruling class hatred of the British working class. Rubbishing the working class goes hand in hand with worship of capital and capitalists. Who are the working class? Those who have to sell their labour power to live - the vast majority of the British people.
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- Owen Jones
May 1, 2012 · This brilliant book examines the rise of ruling class hatred of the British working class. Rubbishing the working class goes hand in hand with worship of capital and capitalists. Who are the working class? Those who have to sell their labour power to live - the vast majority of the British people.
- Owen Jones
May 22, 2012 · In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from “salt of the earth” to “scum of the earth.”. Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, he portrays a far more complex reality.
- Owen Jones
