By Keith Sellick

One thing that recessions can be assured of doing - especially when they are as serious as the current one - is to reveal the huge inequalities of wealth and power in society, in effect they reveal the class structure of society.

Over the past 20 years politicians have tried to bury class, denying it exists anymore (Britain's a classless society) while being happy to keep the company of the world's wealthiest.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2009/01/the-return-of-class.html

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Posted 22 Jan 2009 1:52 PM by The Social Work Blog | Report Abuse

Filed under: keith sellick, Politics, workforce, class, Marx, Runnymeade Trust, The white working class; Britain's forgotten race victims?, white working class