Sentences with phrase «working underclass»

After Del's ancient truck breaks down, cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jønck («A War») keeps us close to the sagebrush and flatlands of Eastern Oregon as the boy and his horse (to whom he confides his innermost thoughts) travel together on foot, coming into contact with both the hard working underclass of American society and the dregs who prey on the innocent and trusting.

In my own view, the Labour Party have actually managed in the last eleven years to create, in ascending order of wealth (i) a working underclass that is actually poverty - stricken (ii) a large benefit - sustained, inactive element that is now economically better off than most of those who work (iii) the working middle - classes, who are being hammered into submission by rising taxes and prices and over-regulation (iv) the rich who are either exempt from or indifferent to taxation or regulation.

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Those who come to work hard and are eager to be part of the American mainstream should be welcomed; the best of intentions and behavior does not justify flouting the law; any self - respecting nation must be able to control its borders; an underclass of millions with no legal existence poses a serious security problem; the economy depends on those who do the work Americans will not do; and on and on.

We can only hope that the progressive secularization of moral reasoning will not work to the detriment of the world's underclasses.

Obviously, the idea that racial discrimination is the sole cause of the predicament of the black working poor and underclass is specious.

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.

What was freedom for Murphy Brown — single motherhood by choice — has proven a burden for working - class and underclass women.

Work and pensions secretary's conference speech highlights «growing underclass» dependent on welfare

A remarkable snapshot of underclass life, love, humor and despair, Position Among the Stars, which picked up the Special World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and recently played at the Los Angeles Film Festival, is an utterly absorbing and strikingly humane nonfiction film that, in non-judgmental nor holier - than - thou fashion, locates the universality of human struggle in charting the tumultuous ups and downs of an extended Indonesian family trying to work their way out of the slums.

Flanked by the quad - pods of the underclass students, the space exposes the work routines of seniors to their younger counterparts.

Murray thus draws a picture of Fishtown, working - class America, supplemented by ethnographic reports on the real Fishtown, that is not far short of the «underclass» that was so widely discussed 30 years ago, when it was thought that white working - class America was in good shape.

A sociology major at Harvard, he took what would have been his senior year off, returning to work at the Sue Duncan Center and to research his thesis, titled The Values, Aspirations and Opportunities of the Urban Underclass.

«White, working - class boys are in danger of becoming an educational underclass,» said the think tank's director, Christian Guy.

If we truly care about children not being tracked in to a permanent underclass we would be working together instead of pitting families against one another.

Now twenty - seven, Ludo works for a vacuous «communications company» that markets unwanted, unaffordable products aimed at the very underclass into which he was born and from which he escaped.

His short fiction, which often explores the lives of the urban underclass and «working poor,» has appeared in journals such as the Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, and Open City.

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.

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.»

From 1973 to 1985, Chris Killip lived among and photographed working - class and underclass communities in the north of England whose livelihoods depended on traditional heavy...

Changing their Ways: Youth Work and «Underclass Theory».