When work disappears
Subtitle: the world of the new urban poor
By: William Julius Wilson
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9780307794697
Subjects: Urban poor; African Americans; Employment; Inner cities; Social Science; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Public Policy; Social Security; Social Services & Welfare
Description: Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to drugs and violent crime--stem directly from the disappearance of blue-collar jobs in the wake of a globalized economy. Wilson's achievement is to portray this crisis as one that affects all Americans, and to propose solutions whose benefits would be felt across our society. At a time when welfare is ending and our country's racial dialectic is more strained than ever, When Work Disappears is a sane, courageous, and desperately important work. "Wilson is the keenest liberal analyst of the most perplexing of all American problems ... [This book is] more ambitious and more accessible than anything he has done before."--The New Yorker From the Trade Paperback edition.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments --; title: Introduction -- -- pt. 1.; title: The new urban poverty -- -- ch. 1.; title: From institutional to jobless ghettos -- -- ch. 2.; title: Societal changes and vulnerable neighborhoods -- -- ch. 3.; title: Ghetto-related behavior and the structure of opportunity -- -- ch. 4.; title: The fading inner-city family -- -- ch. 5.; title: The meaning and significance of race : employers and inner-city workers -- -- pt. 2.; title: The social policy challenge -- -- ch. 6.; title: The American belief system concerning poverty and welfare -- -- ch. 7.; title: Racial antagonisms and race-based social policy -- -- ch. 8.; title: A broader vision : social policy options in cross-national perspective --; title: Appendixes -- -- A.; title: Perspectives on poverty concentration -- -- B.; title: Methodological note on the research at the Center for the Study of Urban Inequality -- -- C.; title: Tables on urban poverty and family life study research --; title: Notes --; title: Bibliography --; title: Index.