CHAVS The demonization of the working class By Owen Jones. Verso. 304 pages. £14.99 ISBN 978 1 844 676 965
This is a polemical book, unashamedly left wing, written in a sharp journalistic style, which quotes freely from other journalism, TV shows and politicians.
Its central premise is that the working class has, since the 1980s, been progressively marginalised and misrepresented.
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