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Review: When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban PoorUser Review - Miriam - GoodreadsThis book was written in 1996 and it is amazing how little has changed in terms of the economic prospects of the unskilled and even of the middle class. It remains to be seen whether better health ... Read full review Review: When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban PoorUser Review - John Sibley - GoodreadsA brilliant expose on how structural and institutional capitalism ( and racism)is far more important in determining public policy for the poor than cultural perceptions. Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesadults AFDC affirmative action African-American American attitudes behavior benefits black women borhoods Bronzeville census tracts Center central cities changes Chicago child cial concentrated poverty cultural Danziger and Gottschalk decline disadvantaged drug economic employed employers employment ethnic families federal ghetto neighborhoods ghetto poverty ghetto-related Greater Grand Crossing groups growth high school hire Hispanic hoods housing immigrants income increased individuals industrial inequality inner city inner-city black males inner-city ghetto inner-city neighborhoods inner-city residents inner-city workers interviews Jargowsky joblessness Kasarda Kaus Korean labor market Latino less levels live low-skilled marriage married Mexican middle-class Neckerman neighbor networks North Lawndale opportunities parents percent poor population poverty line poverty neighborhoods problems programs public housing Puerto Rican quotation race racial racial segregation recipients respondents revealed sector segregation self-efficacy skills society South Side suburban suburbs tion United UPFLS wages welfare mother References to this bookFrom other books
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