04246nam 2200709Ia 450 991084189270332120170815115047.01-281-84069-697866118406930-470-71290-20-470-71265-1(CKB)1000000000551625(EBL)366885(OCoLC)437234457(SSID)ssj0000265825(PQKBManifestationID)11204480(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000265825(PQKBWorkID)10300731(PQKB)11061631(MiAaPQ)EBC366885(PPN)233126805(EXLCZ)99100000000055162519960130d1996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUrban poverty and the underclass[electronic resource] a reader /edited by Enzo MingioneOxford ;Cambridge, Mass. Blackwell19961 online resource (448 p.)Studies in urban and social changeDescription based upon print version of record.0-631-20037-1 0-631-20036-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [384]-421) and index.Urban Poverty and the Underclass: A Reader; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Preface; Part I What is Urban Poverty?; 1 Urban Poverty in the Advanced Industrial World: Concepts, Analysis and Debates; 2 Downdrift: Provoking Agents and Symptom-formation Factors in the Process of Impoverishment; 3 Service Employment Regimes and the New Inequality; 4 The Excluded and the Homeless: The Social Construction of the Fight Against Poverty in Europe; 5 Culture, Politics and National Discourses of the New Urban PovertyPart II The Underclass Debate in a Comparative Approach: Ethnicity, Class and Culture6 From 'Underclass' to ' Undercaste': Some Observations About the Future of the Post-industrial Economy and its Major Victims; 7 A Note on Interpreting American Poverty; 8 Dangerous Classes: Neglected Aspects of the Underclass Debate; 9 Space and Race in the Post-Fordist City: the Outcast Ghetto and Advanced Homelessness in the United States Today; 10 Minorities in Global Cities: New York and Los Angeles11 Red Belt, Black Belt: Racial Division, Class Inequality and the State in the French Urban Periphery and the American GhettoPart III The Poor in Europe: Marginality, Exclusion and Welfare; 12 Social and Economic Change in Contemporary Britain: the Emergence of an Urban Underclass?; 13 The Social Morphology of the New Urban Poor in a Wealthy Italian City: the Case of Milan; 14 Exclusion from Work and the Impoverishment Processes in Naples; 15 Urban Poverty in Germany: a Comparative Analysis of the Profile of the Poor in Stuttgart and Berlin; 16 Conclusion; Bibliography; IndexOver the last two decades ""poverty"" has moved centrestage as an issue within the social sciences. This volume, edited by one of Europe's foremost sociologists, aims to assess the debates surrounding poverty and the responses to it, exploring the ways in which the various socio-political systems and welfarist regimes are being radically transformed. The essays examine how such change is effected by failing welfare programmes and enervating social structures such as family and community which once would have provided mechanisms of social stability.The first part of the book provides reStudies in urban and social change.Urban poorUrban poorEuropePeople with social disabilitiesPeople with social disabilitiesEuropeHomelessnessUrban poor.Urban poorPeople with social disabilities.People with social disabilitiesHomelessness.362.5362.509173362.5091732Mingione Enzo34233MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910841892703321Urban poverty and the underclass2226298UNINA