Residuum, underclass, forgotten people, precariat: journalists and politicians have a compulsive predilection for inventing labels to classify (and disparage) people experiencing poverty, insecurity and alienation. But of all the popular imaginaries constructed to describe the nature and condition of latter-day social exclusion, few have risen to prominence so swiftly, or come to dominate public debate so comprehensively, as ‘the left behind’
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