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Poverty Propaganda debunks many popular myths and misconceptions about poverty and its prevalence, causes and consequences. In particular, it highlights the role of 'poverty propaganda' in sustaining class divides in perpetuating poverty and disadvantage in contemporary Britain.

Poverty Propaganda debunks many popular myths and misconceptions about poverty and its prevalence, causes and consequences. In particular, it highlights the role of 'poverty propaganda' in sustaining class divides in perpetuating poverty and disadvantage in contemporary Britain.

Investigations into youth culture are marginal to the field of youth studies. The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at the University of Birmingham published studies of the post-war youth subcultures, such as the teddy boys and the punks, in the late 1970s and early 1980s (see Hall and Jefferson, 1976). From the 1980s onwards, however, the main concerns for youth studies were the transitions that young people made into the labour market.Transitions research continues to dominate, although the advent of the rave and dance cultures of the late 1980s prompted a partial return to investigations of youth culture. In direct contrast to the influential theories of the CCCS, many recent accounts of youth culture have moved away from structural and class-based accounts of young people's experiences and have produced studies that stress the 'tribal' (Bennett, 1999, 2000), 'individualized' (Miles, 2000) and distinctly 'postsubcultural' (Muggleton, 2000) nature of the contemporary youth cultural experience. Recently, however, questions have been raised as to how far these theoretical insights are useful across youth cultural identities and experiences (Hollands, 2002; Nayak, 2003; Pilkington and Johnson, 2003). This article adds to this slowly growing literature. By drawing upon data collected for a PhD, it is suggested that structural factors, such as neighbourhood residence, can be influential in shaping the cultural identities and experiences of some groups of young people.

This book is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between social exclusion, poverty and the labour market. It challenges long-standing and dominant myths about 'the workless' and 'the poor', by exploring close-up the lived realities of life in low-pay, no-pay Britain

Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- The Chapters -- PART ONE DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION OF ILLICIT DRUGS -- 2 Trends in the Prevalence of Illicit Drug Use in Britain -- Introduction -- The Methodology of Prevalence Estimation -- Population Surveys of Illicit Drug Use -- International Surveys and Comparisons -- National Population Surveys of Drug Prevalence Among Adults and Young Adults -- Agency-Based Surveys and Statistics on Problem Drug Use -- Drug Indicator Studies -- Summary of Prevalence Findings -- 3 'See Emily Play': Youth Culture, Recreational Drug Use and Normalisation -- Introduction -- Biographical Subcultural Encounter -- Popular Culture: Youth and Drugs - a Commercial Strategy of the Culture Industry -- Popular Music and Drugs -- Four Phases of Youth Culture and Recreational Drug Consumption -- Understanding Drug Normalisation -- Conclusion -- 4 The Hardest Drug? Trends in Heroin Use in Britain -- Introduction -- Historical Context: Use of Opium, Opiates and Heroin in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Post-War Heroin Trends: From the Late 1940s to the 1970s -- The 1980s Heroin Epidemic -- New Heroin Outbreaks in the 1990s -- Heroin and Polydrug Use in the Early Twenty-First Century -- Discussion -- 5 Drug Markets and Dealing: From 'Street Dealer' to 'Mr Big' -- Introduction -- Retail-Level Drug Dealing -- 'Open' and 'Closed' Retail-Level Markets -- Retail Dealing in and Around the Dance Club Scene -- Middle and Upper-Level Drug Markets: Middle-Men, Drug Brokers and Go-Betweens -- Conclusions: A Fragmented Picture -- PART TWO POLICING, CONTROL AND CARE -- 6 Drugs and Crime: Exploring the Links -- Introduction -- Types of Link -- Drug Use and Offending in the Overall Population -- Drug Use in the Known Offending Population.

This paper critically engages with a pervasive myth about welfare in the UK which is commonly spread by politicians, think tanks and the media. This is the myth that there are areas of the country which are so affected by entrenched cultures of 'welfare dependency' that the majority of residents are unemployed. In undertaking research that sought to investigate a different idea - that there are families where no-one has worked over several generations - we simultaneously gathered evidence about the likelihood that there are localities where virtually no-one is in employment. The rationale for Channel 4's Benefits Street was exactly this; that whole streets and neighbourhoods are of out of work and living on welfare benefits. We draw on research evidence gathered in Middlesbrough and Glasgow to investigate this idea. Thus, the aim of our paper is simple and empirical: is the central idea of 'Benefits Street' true? Are there streets and neighbourhoods in the UK where virtually no-one works?