Has class identity changed?

Underclass
1. Those at the bottom of society
2. Term is now often used in a negative way to describe those who rely on benefits
3. Murray
  1. Underclass are unemployed, single parents, drug addicts and criminals. They are lazy, workshy, immoral, criminal and dependent on benefits. It is their own fault they have a culture based on idleness, failure and criminality
4. Jordan
  1. The underclass have the same values and attitudes as everyone else in society most would work if they had the chance
Pakulski and Waters
1. Shift from production to consumption in defining identities
Offe
1. fewer and fewer individuals share a common, unifying experience of full time work
There has been a decline in manual work, this means that a sense of working class identity has changed and solidarity weakened
New working class identity
1. Skeggs
  1. Working class women have instrumental attitude to work. Means to an end. Capitalism is an effective means of rising living standards. Individualism putting themselves first

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