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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791072303321

Titolo

The Ghetto underclass [[electronic resource] ] : social science perspectives / / edited by William Julius Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newbury Park, Ca., : SAGE, c1993

ISBN

1-4833-2669-1

1-4522-5454-0

Edizione

[Updated ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WilsonWilliam J. <1935->

Disciplina

362.50973

Soggetti

Urban poor - United States

Inner cities - United States

Urban policy - United States

African Americans - Economic conditions

African Americans - Social conditions

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An ANNALS publication, sponsored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Chapter 1 - The Underclass: Issues, Perspectives, and Public Policy; Chapter 2 - The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City; Chapter 3 - Urban Industrial Transition and the Underclass; Chapter 4 - Absent Fathers in the Inner City; Chapter 5 - Sex Codes and Family Life among Poor Inner-City Youths; Chapter 6 - Employment and Marriage among Inner-City Fathers; Chapter 7 - Single Mothers, the Underclass, and Social Policy; Chapter 8 - Puerto Ricans and the Underclass Debate; Chapter 9 - Immigration and the Underclass

Chapter 10 - The Urban Homeless : A Portrait of Urban DislocationChapter 11 - Equal Opportunity and the Estranged Poor; Chapter 12 - The Logic of Workfare: The Underclass and Work Policy; Chapter 13 - Institutional Change and the Challenge of the Underclass; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines the urban underclass from theoretical, empirical and policy perspectives. Focusing strongly on policy, contributors



explore such topics as demographic and industrial transitions, family patterns, sexual behaviour, immigration and homelessness. A new introduction updates recent work in the field since publication of the first edition.