When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor - Hardcover

Wilson, William Julius

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394579356 ISBN 13: 9780394579351

Publisher: Knopf, 1996

Synopsis

For the first time in the 20th century, the majority of adults in the inner cities are not working. In an important and long-awaited study, one of the country's leading sociologists, the acclaimed author of The Truly Disadvantaged, analyzes the disappearance of work and its effects on the inner city of Chicago.

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Review:

An unofficial adviser to President Bill Clinton, Wilson has become a celebrity of sorts. A former University of Chicago professor, Wilson--currently on staff at Harvard--has been profiled in The New Yorker and dubbed one of America's most influential people by Time magazine. A respected thinker on issues of race and poverty, the author of The Declining Significance of Race and The Truly Disadvantaged offers his take on welfare and inner-city joblessness in When Work Disappears. Racism, Wilson argues, plays increasingly less of a role in urban problems. More significant, he claims, are changes in the global economy and the disappearance of unskilled but decent-paying jobs near cities; according to Wilson, these factors have deprived the urban working class of steady jobs, destroyed inner-city businesses, and caused younger, upwardly mobile residents to flee for the suburbs.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0394579356
• ISBN 13: 9780394579351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352