Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class Owen Jones ebook
ISBN: 9781844678648
Publisher: Verso
Page: 320
Format: pdf

Primarily, this blog is for reviewing fiction and talking about writing. €Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class” is the story of the vilification and attacks on the working class by the politicians and media, starting from Thatcher's notorious defeat of the unions in the eighties. The demonization of the working class (Verso 2011), 298pp. Owen Jones - Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class. There's nothing wrong with non-fiction, just it's not something that I review. Will the working class everget a fair hearing? David Skelton finds this a very readable book about the demonisation of our working class, but suggests that it fails to address the big issues around job creation and welfare reform. Two chapters stood out for me, the first being a discussion of the portrayal of chavs and working class people in general in the media and particularly on TV. Here are a few notes I took at a talk I went to by Owen Jones, the author of the recently published Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class. Owen Jones is clearly a rising star of the Labour left. It is now fourteen years since New Labour proclaimed 'We're all middle class now' on the grounds of the destruction of industrial jobs. Owen Jones's indignant, well-argued debut begins with a joke: "It's sad that Woolworth's is closing. Now a new book – Chavs: the Demonization of the Working Class – argues the word is a coded attack on the poor. Reviewish: Chavs - The Demonisation of the Working Class ~ Owen Jones.