The Likes Of Us - A
Biography Of The White Working Class
Author:
Michael Collins. Once they were portrayed as the salt of the
earth. Nowadays, they take to the streets when paedophiles
and asylum seekers are in their midst; they expose their lives
in TV documentaries; they love Gucci and hate the Euro - the
broadsheets cast them as xenophobes and exhibitionists and
mock their tastes and attitudes. Who are the white working
class and what have they done to deserve this portrayal?
.In this controversial book, south-east London born Michael
Collins defends the white working class against such slurs
and caricatures. He argues that their culture is intimately
linked to a landscape and a concept of home
