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When Work Disappears (The World of the New Urban Poor) (Reprint) (Paperback)
- Author: William Julius Wilson
- Publisher: Vintage Books
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This long-awaited study, by one of America's leading sociologists, analyzes the disappearance of work and its impact on the inner city of Chicago. Wilson explores the current erosion of blue-collar jobs; the movement of business to the suburbs, which excludes the poor of the inner cities; and the gradual flight of all but the very poorest from urban communities. Wilson contest the conservative view that people of the ghetto lack drive and aspiration, and shows that their hopes for success and an honest life are the same as society at large. Wilson goes on to propose a framework in which policy-makers can begin to find both short- and long-term solutions that will alleviate the suffering in the inner cities and get these communities working again.
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- Genre: Social Science, Political Science, Law
- Subgenre: Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, General, Government / State, Provincial & Municipal, Sociology / Urban, Poverty
- Date Published: August 01, 1997
- Release Date: August 01, 1997
- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Author: William Julius Wilson
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
Additional Information
- DPCI: 248-02-1548
- ASIN: B002JJ2MYW
- Catalog #: 11403915
- ISBN: 9780679724179
- Item can be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 8.25 inches length x 5 inches width x 0.75 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.65 pound.
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Reviewer: Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"This is Wilson's masterwork. It is also an agenda--I would say the agenda--for the nation in the generation ahead."
Reviewer: Verlyn Klinkenborg, (Los Angeles Times)
"Essential reading for candidates and voters alike."
