The ghetto underclass : social science perspectives /: social science perspectives. ([1993])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by William Julius Wilson.
• Other Names: Wilson, William J, 1935-
• Contents: 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.
• Edition: Updated edition
• Publisher Details: Newbury Park, California : Sage Publications
• Publication Date: 1993
• Extent: 1 online resource (209 pages)
• Subjects: 362.50973; Urban poor -- United States; Inner cities -- United States; Urban policy -- United States; African Americans -- Economic conditions; African Americans -- Social conditions; Inner cities -- United States; United States -- Race relations; Urban policy -- United States; Urban poor -- United States; 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; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452254548; 1452254540
• Related ISBNs: 0803952724; 9780803952720
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.