A review by andintothetrees
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones

3.0

Chavs wasn’t as ground-breaking a read as I had hoped. This potentially has less to do with Chavs itself and more to do with my having read two books which cover broadly the same points in the past year – So You Think You Know About Britain? by Danny Dorling (reviewed here) and Hard Work by Polly Toynbee (which I read before I started this blog, but you can look at the book on amazon). I also felt that its title was a bit misleading, as Chavs is much more of an examination of class/wealth divides in the UK than an analysis of the chav stereotype.

... [Read the rest of my review here: https://whathannahread.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/chavs-the-demonization-of-the-working-class-by-owen-jones/]