UID:
almafu_9959328775402883
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 426 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9780470712900
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0470712902
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9780470712658
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0470712651
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9780631200376
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0631200371
Series Statement:
Studies in urban and social change
Content:
Over the last two decades 'poverty' has moved centrestage as an issue within the social sciences. This volume, edited by one of Europe's foremost sociologists, aims to assess the debates surrounding poverty and the responses to it, exploring the ways in which the various socio-political systems and welfarist regimes are being radically transformed. The essays examine how such change is effected by failing welfare programmes and enervating social structures such as family and community which once would have provided mechanisms of social stability. The first part of the book provides reflections on urban poverty; the second part discusses the widely debated idea of an 'underclass' and its meanings in Europe and in the USA, and the final part draws on concrete empirical analyses to examine the patterns of poverty throughout the Western Europe.
Content:
This volume will be of first-rate importance to all serious students of politics, sociology, geography, public policy, youth and community studies, social policy and American studies.
Note:
1. Urban Poverty in the Advanced Industrial World: Concepts, Analysis and Debates / Enzo Mingione -- 2. Downdrift: Provoking Agents and Symptom-formation Factors in the Process of Impoverishment / Giuseppe Micheli -- 3. Service Employment Regimes and the New Inequality / Saskia Sassen -- 4. The Excluded and the Homeless: the Social Construction of the Fight Against Poverty in Europe / Antonio Tosi -- 5. Culture, Politics and National Discourses of the New Urban Poverty / Hilary Silver -- 6. From 'Underclass' to 'Undercaste': Some Observations About the Future of the Post-industrial Economy and its Major Victims / Herbert J. Gans -- 7. A Note on Interpreting American Poverty / Norman Fainstein -- 8. Dangerous Classes: Neglected Aspects of the Underclass Debate / Lydia Morris -- 9. Space and Race in the Post-Fordist City: the Outcast Ghetto and Advanced Homelessness in the United States Today / Peter Marcuse.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Urban poverty and the underclass. Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1996 ISBN 0631200363
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780631200369
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1002/9780470712900
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470712900
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470712900
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470712900
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