Towards a Classless Society? - 9780415153317

Taylor & Francis

Timely dissection of the notion of a classless society, which focuses on specific ways in which class inequalities manifest themselves in 1990's Britain. Examines youth crime and poverty, health, homelessness, education and young single mothers. > 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 clasw