How to Save the Underclass

by Robin Marris

The outstanding moral problem of our time is the emergence of an underclass, provoking both pity and an angry political backlash. Robin Marris finds that a slowdown in growth is the root cause, leading to a collapse of the labour market for unskilled men in particular. Fashionable solutions such as lower wages or welfare reform benefit those already well-off, and exacerbate growing income inequality. He employs statistical, sociological and psychological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333669509
• ISBN13: 9780333669501
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"