Chavs : The Demonization of the Working Class by Jones, Owen staff picks

Chavs : The Demonization of the Working Class by Jones, Owen staff picksAuthor: Jones, Owen United Kingdom, Great Britain Published on 25 September 2020 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom. Paperback 336 pages 198 x 130 x 20 266g In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. 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 members have become

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