The 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 w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wilson, William J., 1935-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newbury Park, California : Sage Publications, [1993]
Edición:Updated edition.
Temas:
Urban poor > United States.
Inner cities > United States.
Urban policy > United States.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > États-Unis.
Politique urbaine > États-Unis.
Noirs américains > Conditions économiques.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
African Americans > Economic conditions
African Americans > Social conditions
Inner cities
Race relations
Urban policy
Urban poor
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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