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Class inequality in austerity Britain : power, difference and suffering / edited by Will Atkinson, Steven Roberts and Mike Savage.

Title: Class inequality in austerity Britain : power, difference and suffering / edited by Will Atkinson, Steven Roberts and Mike Savage.
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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viii, 195 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 it claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to critical interrogation by exposing the interests behind the policy programme pursued and its damaging exacerbation of class inequalities. Situated within a recognition of the longer-term rise of neoliberal politics, reflections on the status of sociology as a source of critique and current debates over the relationship between the cultural and economic dimensions of social class, the contributors cover an impressively wide range of relevant topics, from education, family policy and community to crime and consumption, shedding new light on the experience of class domination in the early 21st Century.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-192) and index.

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Contents

List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction: A Critical Sociology of the Age of Austerity / Will Atkinson, Steven Roberts, Mike Savage -- 2. Economic Crisis and Classed Everyday Life: Hysteresis, Positional Suffering and Symbolic Violence / Will Atkinson -- 3. 'We never get a fair chance': Working-Class Experiences of Education in the Twenty-First Century / Diane Reay -- 4. Banking on the Future: Choices, Aspirations and Economic Hardship in Working-Class Student Experience / Harriet Bradley, Nicola Ingram -- 5. 'Aspirations' and Imagined Futures: The Im/possibilities for Britain's Young Working Class / Steven Roberts, Sarah Evans -- 6. Personalising Poverty: Parental Determinism and the Big Society Agenda / Val Gillies -- 7. The Urban Outcasts of the British City / Matt Clement -- 8. The Stigmatised and De-valued Working Class: The State of a Council Estate / Lisa McKenzie -- 9. Broken Communities? / Mike Savage -- 10. Facing the Challenge of the Return of the Rich / Andrew Sayer -- 11. Conclusion: Three Challenges to the Exportation of Sociological Knowledge / Will Atkinson, Steven Roberts, Mike Savage -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

9781137016379 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2012033351

OCLC

795175294

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Harvard Library