Include Me Out? The New Politics of Place and Poverty

London is being successfully regenerated at present, yet poverty andsocial exclusion are increasing. The paradox is explained in part by theopenness of the London economy and the lack of basic skills of asubstantial minority of the population. The Government’s policies fortackling social exclusion are undermined by conflating the concept ofsocial exclusion with the discredited terminology of the “urbanunderclass”. To be effective, policy needs to be less economicallyconservative, and more focused on piecemeal reforms.[...]