03134nam 2200637 a 450 991081566900332120161219111727.01-4833-2669-11-4522-5454-0(CKB)2550000001194158(EBL)1598403(SSID)ssj0001112127(PQKBManifestationID)12509251(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001112127(PQKBWorkID)11158424(PQKB)10044199(MiAaPQ)EBC1598403(OCoLC)875379105(StDuBDS)EDZ0000159269(EXLCZ)99255000000119415820130912d1993 fy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe Ghetto underclass[electronic resource] social science perspectives /edited by William Julius WilsonUpdated ed.Newbury Park, Ca. SAGEc19931 online resource (201 p.)"An ANNALS publication, sponsored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science."1-322-42020-3 0-8039-5272-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 UnderclassChapter 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; IndexThis 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.Urban poorUnited StatesInner citiesUnited StatesUrban policyUnited StatesAfrican AmericansEconomic conditionsAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsUnited StatesRace relationsUrban poorInner citiesUrban policyAfrican AmericansEconomic conditions.African AmericansSocial conditions.362.50973Wilson William J.1935-44079StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910815669003321The Ghetto underclass3959752UNINA