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A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience

Simon J Charlesworth author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:9th Dec '99

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This book addresses the personal effects of poverty, social deprivation and inequality using a phenomenological approach.

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.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.

'An exemplary study of contemporary working-class life … intense and affecting.' Sociology

ISBN: 9780521659154

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm

Weight: 480g

326 pages