Urban poverty and the underclass : a reader /

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-politic...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Mingione, Enzo
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1996.
Series:	Studies in urban and social change.
Subjects:	Urban poor. Urban poor > Europe. People with social disabilities. People with social disabilities > Europe. Homelessness. Homeless persons. Homeless Persons Homelessness People with social disabilities People with social disabilities > Europe Socially handicapped Urban poor Urban poor > Europe Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.