What do we mean by the ‘underclass’?

Macnicol, John (2016) What do we mean by the ‘underclass’? British Politics and Policy at LSE (03 Nov 2016). Website.

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Recent evidence points to the failure of the ‘troubled families’ programme launched by the Coalition government in 2011, a programme designed to intervene in the lives of the estimated 120,000 most behaviourally anti-social families in England and Wales. As John Macnicol argues, the concept of the ‘underclass’ underpinning this initiative has a long history, and has resurfaced in various forms for over a century in British politics and policy-making

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited:	31 Mar 2017 14:16
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 15:10
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/71950

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