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THE 1981 URBAN RIOTS IN BRITAIN

01 January 1991

THE 1981 URBAN RIOTS IN BRITAIN
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JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 001807
J Rex
Int J Urb Reg Res, 1982 6(1) pp99-113

Argues that existing sociological theory has little to offer in
explaining urban riots and looks in detail at the British
experience for some answers. Suggests that the disorder in Bristol,
Brixton, Toxteth and elsewhere is an aspect of the class struggle
based on highly complex associations between widely varying
groups. Mass unemployment may have been the flash point but the
basic struggle was between an alienated youth and society as
represented by the police.

United Kingdom, public order, London, Liverpool,
ethnic minorities, young people

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