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ˈunderclass
[under-1 5 b.]
A subordinate social class; spec. [ad. Sw. underklass] the lowest social stratum in a country or community, consisting of the poor and the unemployed.
1918J. Maclean in ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept (1966) iv. 124 The whole history of Society has proved that Society moves forward as a consequence of an under-class overcoming the resistance of a class on top of them. 1963G. Myrdal Challenge to Affluence iii. 40 Less often observed..is the tendency of the changes under way to trap an ‘underclass’ of unemployed and, gradually, unemployable persons and families at the bottom of a society. 1964Observer 12 Jan. 10/7 The Negro's protest today is but the first rumbling of the ‘underclass’. 1966New Statesman 19 Aug. 247/2 The national economic growth has been bought at the expense of industrial workers and the poor (largely Negro) under-class. 1977D. M. Smith Human Geogr. x. 299 While in South Africa the black proletariat is large enough radically to change society on its own, the American under-class is in a minority and has much less potential power. 1981D. G. Glasgow (title) The Black underclass: poverty, unemployment and entrapment in ghetto youth. 1981New Statesman 17 July 14 Many people{ddd}have warned of trouble if we went on creating a permanent underclass, and typing it by colour. 1982N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Aug. 15/2 The distinctive feature of any under⁓class is that its members do not conform to the conduct expected of the poor. 1985Times 11 Jan. 5/1 Modern Britain is fostering an underclass of unemployed and unskilled workers. |