Cover art for Life at the Bottom
Published
Ivan R. Dee, May 2003
ISBN
9781566635059
Format
Softcover, 284 pages
Dimensions
22.6cm × 14.8cm × 1.9cm

Life at the Bottom The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by

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This work is an account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England. Its insight is that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values, one that is continually reinforced by an elite culture searching for victims.

It draws upon eye-opening, true-life vignettes that are by turns hilariously funny, chillingly horrifying, and all too revealing - sometimes all at once.

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