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Title: Becoming Mainstream: From the Underclass to the Entrepreneurial Poor

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Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: In 2006, concerns about an emerging “underclass” became a central point of debate in German welfare circles. Some commentators tried to explain this new social phenomenon in the context of a broader set of social realities — the diminishing prospects for advancement faced by a large share of the German labor force. For others, including the leader of the Social Democratic Party, the underclass represented a smaller but more deviant social element that had “come to terms” with its poverty and lacked ambition to improve its circumstances. The new debate posed a profound challenge to welfare policy analysts: should the “underclass” be seen as one part of a broader structural reality or as a smaller “deviant” part of the social order, isolated from broader social processes.

Url: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-531-90552-5_3

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Authors: Stern, Mark, J

Editors: Kessl, Fabian; Reutlinger, Christian; Ziegler, Holger

Pages: 39-54

Volume Title: Erziehung zur Armut?: Soziale Arbeit und die 'neue Unterschicht'

Publisher: Springer-Verlag

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Topics: Poverty and Welfare

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