The 'New' Concept of Poverty : Emergence of the Concept of the Underclass

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  • 貧困問題の「新」展開 : アンダークラス概念の登場と背景
  • ヒンコン モンダイ ノ シン テンカイ アンダークラス ガイネン ノ トウジョウ ト ハイケイ

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In the advanced countries, especially in the British and the US society, the concept of the 'underclass' has emerged and penetrated into people with the victim-blaming ideology of poverty.The concept includes the idea that some poor people have deviated from our society. In short, 'they' are no longer the unemployed working class, but members of a separate, underclass society. In this article, I want to clarify some background and reasons for the concept for the underclass and/or underclass debates. This work is very significant for the examination of Japanese social and antipoverty policy which will be learning from British or US' 'workfare' policy in future.

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