Ghetto Underclass - Social Science Perspectives

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.

List of contents

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: William Julius Wilson
• Assisted by: William J Wilson (Editor), William J. Wilson (Editor), William Julius Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.1993
• EAN: 9780803952720
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-5272-0
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Umweltwissenschaften, Umwelttechnik, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental)