"The reality in Britain today is that one in five young people are out of work. That’s the highest it’s ever been. And in working class communities, it’s even higher. In Tottenham where the riots first started, there are 54 unemployed people chasing every single job vacancy. If you have so many people who feel they don’t have a future to risk, it only takes a very small proportion of them to bring chaos to the streets of Britain.
"The riots are a dark foreshadow of much worse to come."
Jane Miller of In These Times talks with Owen Jones about his book Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class.
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