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This moving and challenging book by Simon Charlesworth deals with the personal consequences of poverty and class and the effects of growing up as part of a poor and stigmatized group. Charlesworth examines these themes by focussing on a particular town - Rotherham - in South Yorkshire, England, and using the personal testimony of disadvantaged people who live there, acquired through recorded interviews and conversations. He applies to these life stories the interpretative tools of philosophy and social theory, drawing in particular on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Merleau-Ponty, in order to explore the social relations and experiences of a distinct but largely ignored social group. The culture described in this book is not unique to Rotherham and Charlesworth argues that the themes and problems identified in this book will be familiar to economically powerless and politically dispossessed people everywhere.

Working class --- Travailleurs --- 316.343.63 <41> --- #SBIB:316.8H15 --- #SBIB:044.AANKOOP --- Arbeidersstand. Proletariaat. Landarbeiders --(sociale stratificatie)--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Welzijns- en sociale problemen: sociale ongelijkheid en armoede --- Working class. --- Working class - England - Rotherham. --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Rotherham. --- Social Sciences --- Sociology --- 316.343.63 <41> Arbeidersstand. Proletariaat. Landarbeiders --(sociale stratificatie)--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Employment --- Social classes --- Labor --- Rotherham