Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Dead Man's Town; 2 Rotherham: history, demography and place; 3 Class and the objectifying subject: a reflexive sociology of class experience; 4 A landscape with figures?; 5 Understanding the barriers to articulation; 6 Necessity and being working class; 7 The culture of necessity and working class speech; 8 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
Summary
This book examines the effects of poverty and class through the personal testimony of the people living in the industrial area of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It argues that the themes and problems identified in this book will be familiar to marginalized groups everywhere
