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9780803952720

The Ghetto Underclass; Social Science Perspectives

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  • ISBN13:

    9780803952720

  • ISBN10:

    0803952724

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1993-08-17
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

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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.

Table of Contents

The Underclass
Issues, Perspectives, and Public Policy - Lo[um]ic J D Wacquant and William Julius Wilson
The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City - John D Kasarda
Urban Industrial Transition and the Underclass - Mercer L Sullivan
Absent Fathers in the Inner City - Elijah Anderson
Sex Codes and Family Life Among Poor Inner-City Youths - Mark Testa et al
Employment and Marriage Among Inner-City Fathers - Sara McLanahan and Irwin Garfinkel
Single Mothers, The Underclass, and Social Policy - Marta Tienda
Puerto Ricans and the Underclass Debate - Robert D Reischauer
Immigration and the Underclass - Peter H Rossi and James D Wright
The Urban Homeless
A Portrait of Urban Dislocation - Jennifer L Hochschild
Equal Opportunity and the Estranged Poor - Lawrence M Mead
The Logic of Workfare
The Underclass and Work Policy - Richard P Nathan
Institutional Change and the Challenge of the Underclass

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