This Joseph Rowntree Foundation report discusses white working-class perspectives on community cohesion and the impact of social change.. Reviewing the experiences of residents in three neighbourhoods across England, the report

• critically reviews the concept of community cohesion and its application
• looks at the extent to which white working-class communities are a forgotten group disconnected from policy and politics
• discusses the complexity of whiteness, class and cohesion
• recommends reconfiguring community cohesion as a grassroots intervention, making a case for difference and diversity. (Summary)