Nandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force. By focusing on the role of the poor in caste, religious and nationalistic politics, and on their contribution to the urban economy, the author demonstrates how they emerged as a …
Nandini Gooptu's history of the Indian urban poor represents a tour-de-force. It focuses on themes ranging from the social construction of poverty, religious and caste identities and nationalist and labour politics. In this way, the book contributes to current debates on the nat…
Youth, the underclass and social exclusion
Youth, the 'underclass' and social exclusion
Youth, the 'underclass' and social exclusion
Debates about the family and single-parenthood, about crime and about unemployment and welfare reform have all become embroiled in underclass theories. This volume explores the underclass idea in relation to contemporary youth.
Debates about the family and single-parenthood, about crime and about unemployment and welfare reform have all become embroiled in underclass theories. This volume explores the underclass idea in relation to contemporary youth.
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 19…
In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over 100 times, arrested upward o…