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Five Employment and disconnection: cultures of worklessness in neighbourhoods
Abstract
This chapter references a historical study of the Manor Estate in Sheffield in order to critique the policy rationales that connect labour-market behaviour to the ‘disconnection’ of deprived communities. The study shows the inadequacy of cultural theories in explaining the social and/or physical isolation of particular populations. The chapter also reveals how modern concerns regarding a crisis in community cohesion ignore similar concerns about neighbourhoods like the Manor Estate in earlier historical periods.
Abstract
This chapter references a historical study of the Manor Estate in Sheffield in order to critique the policy rationales that connect labour-market behaviour to the ‘disconnection’ of deprived communities. The study shows the inadequacy of cultural theories in explaining the social and/or physical isolation of particular populations. The chapter also reveals how modern concerns regarding a crisis in community cohesion ignore similar concerns about neighbourhoods like the Manor Estate in earlier historical periods.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures iv
- Acknowledgements v
- Notes on contributors vi
- Introduction 1
- Community cohesion and the politics of communitarianism 15
- Community cohesion in Bradford: neoliberal integrationism 35
- Connectivity of place and housing market change: the case of Birmingham 57
- Shifting geographies of minority ethnic settlement: remaking communities in Oldham and Rochdale 81
- Employment and disconnection: cultures of worklessness in neighbourhoods 99
- Beyond ‘social glue’? ‘Faith’ and community cohesion 119
- The third sector and community cohesion in deprived neighbourhoods 139
- Welfare state institutions and secessionary neighbourhood spaces 159
- New immigration and neighbourhood change 177
- Too much cohesion? Young people’s territoriality in Glasgow and Edinburgh 199
- Geodemographics and the construction of differentiated neighbourhoods 219
- Secession or cohesion? Exploring the impact of gated communities 239
- Conclusions 259
- Index 267
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures iv
- Acknowledgements v
- Notes on contributors vi
- Introduction 1
- Community cohesion and the politics of communitarianism 15
- Community cohesion in Bradford: neoliberal integrationism 35
- Connectivity of place and housing market change: the case of Birmingham 57
- Shifting geographies of minority ethnic settlement: remaking communities in Oldham and Rochdale 81
- Employment and disconnection: cultures of worklessness in neighbourhoods 99
- Beyond ‘social glue’? ‘Faith’ and community cohesion 119
- The third sector and community cohesion in deprived neighbourhoods 139
- Welfare state institutions and secessionary neighbourhood spaces 159
- New immigration and neighbourhood change 177
- Too much cohesion? Young people’s territoriality in Glasgow and Edinburgh 199
- Geodemographics and the construction of differentiated neighbourhoods 219
- Secession or cohesion? Exploring the impact of gated communities 239
- Conclusions 259
- Index 267
