Idle Thieving Bastards? Scholarly Representations of the `Underclass'

Bagguley, Paul; Mann, Kirk

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“…They are too dependent on the welfare state, morally irresponsible, and antisocial. This is due to the crumbling of the social fabric within communities under pressure not only from unemployment but also from crime and illegitimacy: they are ''idle, thieving bastards'' (Bagguley & Mann, 1992). The crime varies from petty crime to the substantial hidden economy and gang warfare built around drugs.…”

Section: Moralmentioning

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Guidance Policies: The Trojan Horse

Plant¹

2005

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

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Guidance policies are often formulated in general terms. The recent European Union Resolution on Lifelong Guidance, for example, runs along two main lines. One line pursues the policy goal of creating a more inclusive society with active citizens. The other line pursues global competitiveness. These two pursuits may seem to present conflicting policy goals. The dilemmas that guidance practitioners encounter in this context are typically for individual guidance practitioners to resolve on their own. This article points to some of the issues at stake in terms of policymaking against social exclusion, and it suggests three possible guidance strategies: solving, preventing and coping.Re´sume´. Politiques d'orientation: le cheval de Troie. Les politiques d'orientation sont souvent formule´es en termes ge´ne´raux. La re´cente Re´solution de l'Union Europe´enne des syndicats concernant l'orientation tout au long de la vie, par exemple, trace deux axes principaux. L'un de ces axes correspond a`un but politique de cre´ation d'une socie´te´qui comprenne davantage de citoyens actifs. L'autre axe correspond a`un objectif de compe´titivite´globale. Ces deux axes peuvent sembler correspondre a`des buts politiques contradictoires. La re´solution des dilemmes que rencontrent les praticiens de l'orientation dans ce contexte est en ge´ne´ral laisse´e a`leur libre appre´ciation. Cet article pointe certains des proble`mes en jeu en termes de de´finition d'une politique contre l'exclusion sociale et sugge`re trois strate´gies possibles d'orientation: re´solution, pre´vention et adaptation.Zusammenfassung. Berufsberatungs-Politiken: Das Trojanische Pferd. Berufsberatungpolitiken sind ha¨ufig auf der Grundlage allgemeiner Leitlinien formuliert. Die aktuelle Europa¨ische Resolution zur lebenslangen Berufsberatung beispielsweise orientiert sich an zwei Hauptlinien. Eine Linie verfolgt das politische Ziel, mit aktiven Bu¨rgern eine Gesellschaft zu entwickeln, die sta¨rkere Beteiligung ermo¨glicht. Die andere Linie betont die globale Konkurrenzfa¨higkeit. Diese beiden Zielsetzungen ko¨nnten auf den ersten Blick als konkurrierende politische Ziele aufgefasst werden. Die Dilemmata, denen Berufsberaterinnen in diesem Zusammenhang ausgesetzt sind, sind typischerweise fu¨r das Feld der Berufsberatung von den BeraterInnen alleine aufzulo¨sen. Dieser Artikel weist im Sinne einer Politik gegen sozialen Ausschluss auf einige Aspekte hin, die auf dem Spiel stehen, und er schla¨gt drei mo¨gliche Beratungsstrategien vor: Lo¨sung, Vermeidung und Anpassung.Resumen. Polı´ticas de Orientacio´n: el Caballo de Troya. Las polı´ticas de orientacio´n se suelen formular en te´rminos generales. La reciente Resolucio´n de la Unio´n Europea sobre el Aprendizaje a lo Largo de la Vida, por ejemplo, se plantea en torno a dos ejes o lı´neas principales. La primera tiene como objetivo la polı´tica de crear una sociedad ma´s inclusiva con ciudadanos activos. La otra lı´nea promueve la competitividad global. Parece que estas dos finalidades podrı´an llevar a metas polı´t...

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Section: Moralmentioning

confidence: 99%

Guidance Policies: The Trojan Horse

Plant¹

2005

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

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“…argues that this focus on responsibility represents an individualisation of risk (Beck, 1992); a significant shift from earlier welfare models conceptualising unemployment as an "identified disservice caused by society" (Titmuss, 1967(Titmuss, /2000 for which welfare benefits provided "partial compensation" (ibid.). Although the debates around the deserving and undeserving poor have a long history (Bagguley and Mann, 1992), the strength of the distinction between those deemed to deserve support and those who do not has increased in line with rhetoric which emphasises individual responsibility. A lack of employment opportunities is thus recast as an individualised problem of worklessness as the social is individualised (Ferge, 1997).…”

Section: Conditionality or Welfare Rights?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Lone parents: unemployed or otherwise engaged?

Davies¹

2012

PPP

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This paper examines change and continuity in policy approaches to supporting lone parent families since 1997. The paper considers whether re-categorizing those lone parents not engaged with the labour market as 'unemployed' reopens old debates about who deserves financial support from the state. With lone parents placed in the 'potential worker' category the influence of a moral position advocating the inherent 'goodness' of an engagement with the paid labour market and the private nature of parental caring responsibility is explored. Some potential problems with the focus on employment are highlighted, in particular the specific challenges that lone parents may face when attempting to combine paid work with caring responsibilities.

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“…In particular, British people have tended not to get married before having children in recent years, so that about half of British children are now born illegitimate. The values of working, and its rewards in the form of a nice partnership, nice home and happy family life do not seem to have been eroded in spite of more than one generation of unemployment in some parts of Britain (see Bagguley and Mann, 1992, Macdonald, 1994, Johnson et al, 2000, p. 26, cf Heath, 1997.…”

Section: The Lumpenproletariatmentioning

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Can Marxism Make Sense of Crime?

Cowling¹

2011

Global Discourse

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Idle Thieving Bastards? Scholarly Representations of the `Underclass'

Cited by 114 publications

References 12 publications

Guidance Policies: The Trojan Horse

Guidance Policies: The Trojan Horse

Lone parents: unemployed or otherwise engaged?

Can Marxism Make Sense of Crime?

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