The working class of the 70’s, and the inspiration for Skinhead’s, were now the unemployed and ignored of the 80’s. The skinhead culture was a class awareness and a cultural heritage that suggested it was a rather more complex phenomenon; one that reflected tensions inherent within the socio-economic and political realities of late 1970s’ and early 1980s’ Britain. There were already socio-economic tensions as I have previously said, and these tensions could have been a helping hand in the conflicts that were emerging in the Skinhead culture. Different political views are a standard conflict within anything, but within the skinhead community, their differing political views were founded in the extreme, with the emergence of racist attitudes and movements.
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