Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

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Owen Jones: What I warned about in the book was that class had been abandoned by the Labour Party, and that left the vacuum, which meant that a savvy right-wing populist could present itself as the champion of an abandoned and demonised working class. And it happened. The BNP won a load of council seats in Barking and Dagenham, and then later you get the UKIP surge.

a b Jones, Owen (9 March 2012). "My father, and the reality of losing your job in middle age". The Independent. London, UK. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015 . Retrieved 14 March 2015. Jones lays bare the makings of our modern 21st Century society -- and it's not pretty. If you care about living in a just and fair society, if you want to understand modern Britain, then Chavs is essential reading. Margaret Thatcher y el thatcherismo fueron peores para el Reino Unido que los bombardeos de los alemanes. Brady, Phelim (8 February 2013). "Interview: Owen Jones". Varsity.co.uk. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013 . Retrieved 26 September 2013. I love the United Kingdom, its magnificent NHS, its dignity, its artists, thinkers and supportive neighbors. Jones' work challenges me and invites me to fight careerism and the destruction of our working class minimized in occupations where their skills are reduced and their morale devastated.Cruddas, Jon (3 June 2011). "Book of the week: Chavs: the demonization of the working class by Owen Jones". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 24 September 2011 . Retrieved 15 September 2011. Class is a communist concept," Margaret Thatcher told Newsweek in 1992. "It groups people together and sets them against each other." Just over a decade later, Thatcher's crude rightwing dogmatism had given way to a kind of all-pervasive centre-right wishful thinking. Towards the end of his reign as prime minister, Tony Blair told a New Labour think-tank "we're all middle class", an opinion echoed more recently by both the Daily Telegraph ("We're all middle class now, dahling") and the Times ("We're all middle class now as social barriers fall away").

The Royal Television Society Lecture 2013 – 'Totally Shameless: How TV Portrays the Working Class' ". BBC. 24 November 2013. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014 . Retrieved 27 August 2014. Jones is a weekly columnist for The Guardian [17] after switching from The Independent in March 2014. His work has appeared in the New Statesman, the Sunday Mirror, Le Monde diplomatique and several publications with lower circulations. [3] [18] He writes from a left-wing perspective. [19] [20]Few first time authors have been able to spark as much debate about a subject as Owen Jones has with his new book Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class. A glance at the search results for chavs on Google, only a few days after the book’s release, shows how much Jones has dominated the conversation on the controversial word, and its wider political connotations.

The liberal and left elites now use the race card against he white under classes and point out since the latter are supposedly 'racist' and 'bigoted' they must be punished for this and are the unworthy poor as compared to the impoverished people of colour who are deemed worthy of empathy and upliftment. Owen Jones (born 8 August 1984) [2] is a British newspaper columnist, political commentator, journalist, author, and left-wing activist. He writes a column for The Guardian and contributes to the New Statesman and Tribune. He has two weekly web series, The Owen Jones Show, and The Owen Jones Podcast. He was previously a columnist for The Independent. The shift recently has been away from seeing the working class as the ‘salt of the earth’ and seeing them more as bigoted, stupid, greedy, selfish, welfare (and just about everything else) cheats. That this change has occurred at a time when our societies are systematically dismantling the welfare state smells a lot like ‘blaming the victim’. Flood, Alison (31 August 2011). "Guardian first book award longlist: fiction takes lead". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 13 November 2011. Owen Jones". David Higham Literary, Film and TV Agents. Archived from the original on 1 December 2011 . Retrieved 15 September 2011.

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Evans, RichardJ. (2019). Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History. New York: Oxford University Press. p.642. ISBN 9780190459642. Indeed as Jones rightly puts it: “Thatcher’s assumption of power in 1979 marked the beginning of an all-out assault on the pillars of working class Britain”. On her watch council estates were something to be feared, not somewhere to be proud of, and her callous derision of single-mother families ensured communities were divided. All the while trade unions were being targeted and dis-empowered, while the poor found themselves getting worse off. Lees, Paris (23 April 2015). "Paris Lees: 'We won't fix society for trans people without strong allies' ". Attitude Magazine. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016 . Retrieved 27 March 2016. Ash Sarkar: Do you buy into this idea that there is a working class, and then an underclass? Or is that a wholly manufactured distinction? The notes for the play suggested that the writer wanted it to encourage people to think about the nature of class differences in Australia – but really, you can’t achieve critical reflections upon the basis of a series of clichés and stereotypes. Stereotypes reinforce prejudice and stop people thinking. That’s literally their point, to allow us to not have to think about (or know how to respond to) people we press into the stereotype.

Jones has written, not a myth-busting book setting the world right about what is or is not a ‘chav’, but a reminder of the institutional demonization of the working class in general. His point, however, is not that working class people can be reduced to the status of a chav – rather, the mythical ideology of aspiration, from Thatcher through to Blair, has all but rid the working class of its pride. Ash Sarkar: I remember buying the book, and it had the Burberry cap emblazoned across the front of it. That image made the whole argument so tangible to me. Is that something you felt at the time, that as a country we talk about class as culture rather than as economics? BBC's Nicholas Witchell slammed over 'tasteless' speculation on Queen's health". The National (Scotland). 8 September 2022 . Retrieved 10 September 2022.Jones attended Bramhall High School and Ridge Danyers Sixth Form College [11] and studied history at University College, Oxford, graduating with a BA in 2005 and a Master of Studies in US History in 2007. [12] [13] Before entering journalism, he worked as a trade union lobbyist and a parliamentary researcher for the Labour Party MP John McDonnell. [14] [15] At one point he was also hired by the historian Eric Hobsbawm to index and archive his papers. [16] Writings and public career [ edit ] Columnist, broadcaster and writer [ edit ] Jones speaking in 2013 And then you go and spoil it all by doing something stupid like criticising Gordon Brown for calling that bigoted woman 'bigoted'. And by saying that she made 'mild' remarks about immigration. MILD?!