Full name: When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor

Author: William Julius Wilson Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sociology, Non Fiction, Economics, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780679724179 0679724176

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. 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. Similar books: No Shame in My Game by Katherine S. Newman The Truly Disadvantaged by William Julius Wilson Off the Books by Sudhir Venkatesh Ain't No Makin' It by Jay MacLeod Flat Broke with Children by Sharon Hays The Other America by Michael Harrington The Jobless Future by Stanley Aronowitz The Locust Effect by Gary A. Haugen Tightrope by Nicholas D. Kristof No, They Can't by John Stossel Born on Third Base by Chuck Collins Beyond Outrage by Robert B. Reich Captive State by George Monbiot The End of Growth by Richard Heinberg The Politics of Rich and Poor by Kevin Phillips Water Wars by Vandana Shiva Rebel Cities by David Harvey The Working Poor by David K. Shipler End of Millennium by Manuel Castells War on the Middle Class by Lou Dobbs