Description
Recent years have seen the faltering of economic growth, the erosion of the welfare state and the disappearance of social consensus. Nowhere have these processes cut more deeply than in the inner city, where industrial decline, low income, persistent high unemployment and housing decay are fuelling crime and racial tension to create our most daunting social problem.
Combining interviews and eye-witness accounts
with his own penetrating analysis, Paul Harrison
provides a challenging portrait of the underside of
the affluent society, and the hidden human costs of
public policies. From dying factories to social
security offices, from single mothers to street
thieves, it offers a unique insight into the stark
realities of deprivation and social conflict in
Britain today. ISBN:9780140224191 
