Using experiences of the white, English, working-classes in Manchester, this book explores the local frustrations with feeling 'ignored' and 'neglected' by the government through articulations of fairness.

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'Katherine Smith's book is a deeply insightful, sometimes painfully-honest but always riveting ethnographic account of white working class experiences of fairness, racism and the transformation of urban Britain during the early years of the twenty first century.' - Alexander Smith, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Warwick, UK

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University of Manchester, UK

Katherine Smith

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KATHERINE SMITH Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK. She has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in working class communities in England, researching issues to do with fairness and equality, race and ethnicity, political correctness, social class and the anthropology of humour.

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Book Title: Fairness, Class and Belonging in Contemporary England
Authors: Katherine Smith
Series Title: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137009333
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-28974-1Published: 28 June 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33110-9Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00933-3Published: 28 June 2012
Series ISSN: 2947-6100
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6119
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 249
Topics: Ethnicity Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Public Policy, Political Sociology, Political Science, Gender Studies

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