| Description |
xii, 228 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Dangerous youth and the dangerous class / Robert MacDonald -- 2. Young people and the labour market / Malcolm Maguire and Susan Maguire -- 3. Is there an emerging British 'underclass'? The evidence from youth research / Ken Roberts -- 4. Underclassed or undermined? Young people and social citizenship / Hartley Dean -- 5. Status ZerO youth and the 'underclass': Some considerations / Howard Williamson -- 6. The formation of an underclass or disparate processes of social exclusion? Evidence from two groupings of 'vulnerable youth' / Debbie Baldwin, Bob Coles and Wendy Mitchell -- 7. Youth homelessness and the 'underclass' / Gill Jones -- 8. 'Destructing a giro': A critical and ethnographic study of the youth 'underclass' / Shane J. Blackman -- 9. The 'Black Magic Roundabout': Cyclical transitions, social exclusion and alternative careers / Steve Craine -- 10. Changing their ways: Youth work and 'underclass' theory / Tony Jeffs |
|
11. Youth, social exclusion and the millennium / Robert MacDonald |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [198]-221) and index |
| Subject |
Social isolation -- Great Britain.
|
|
Unemployed youth -- Great Britain.
|
|
Youth with social disabilities -- Great Britain.
|
|
Urban poor -- Great Britain.
|
|
Hard-core unemployed -- Great Britain.
|
|
Marginality, Social -- Great Britain.
|
| Author |
MacDonald, Robert, 1962-
|
| LC no. |
97001608 |
| ISBN |
041515829X |
|
0415158303 paperback |
|
