Sentences with phrase «new underclass»

In this body of work Ronay plays out scenes from an imagined resistance movement formed from a new underclass composed of people of all ages, races, and socioeconomic groups.

In a future where humans have taken to the sky and robots form a new underclass, inventor Dr Tenma's boy is accidentally killed.

Not exact matches

«A growing underclass scrambling to make ends meet at the whim of increasingly picky and erratic employers, that number could balloon to 65 million within 10 years, or about half of the domestic workforce, warns Steven Hill in his troubling new book, Raw Deal.

The Senate immigration plan actually plans to create a brand new exploited underclass.

Previously, of course, they had fired him from being the corch of the Dillon Panthers and sent him to the seemingly impossible task of coaching the new team at underclass East Dillon.

The new black conservatives have had their most salutary effect on public discourse by highlighting the breakdown of the moral fabric in the country and especially in black working poor and underclass communities.

The crisis of black liberalism and the emergence of the new black conservatives can best be understood in light of three fundamental events in American society and culture since 1973: the eclipse of U.S. economic and military predominance in the world; the structural transformation of the American economy; and the moral breakdown of communities throughout the country, especially among the black working poor and underclass.

Business people continue to believe, mutatis mutandis, that «what is good for General Motors is good for America»; the new middle - class professionals, no doubt with equal sincerity, believe that the «reordering of national priorities» that guarantees their privileges benefits the poor, the underclass or whatever other morally acceptable beneficiary can be plausibly cited.

The idea of a moneyed underclass isn't a new one.

Surveying the ravaged landscape of the Detroit area — which could be a stand - in for post-Katrina New Orleans, or any other condemned, jobless American blight — Gosling turns common underclass desperation and exploitation into the stuff of nightmares.

New American auteurs Ben and Josh Safdie have moved away from the unhurried style of their earlier films (Daddy Longlegs, Heaven Knows What), producing a tense, funny crime film set over one terrible night when everything goes wrong for its underclass crim protagonists.

The Politics and Practice of School Accountability (co-editor with Martin R. West) The Future of School Choice (editor) Our Schools and our Future (editor) City Limits The Urban Underclass (co-edited with Christopher Jencks) Price of Federalism Welfare Magnets (with Mark C. Rom) The New American Democracy (with Morris P. Fiorina, Bertram Johnson, and William G. Mayer) Four of his books have received major awards from the American Political Science Association.

But in stark contrast to the image of a perpetual «urban underclass» depicted in television by shows like The Wire, sociologists Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson present a more nuanced portrait of Baltimore's inner - city residents that employs important new research on the significance of early life opportunities available to low - income populations.

A recent US museum tour, «the kids are alright,» places his work in the context of the struggle of the young American underclass to make a living in dire economic times, as does a New York show this fall entitled, «Homeland (In) Security.»

The Justice Gap collection considers a varied cast of contemporary folk devils: football fans, underclass «scum» and feral youth as well as the «new suspect community», Muslim youth.