When Work Disappears

When Work Disappears

"When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor" (1996) is a book by William Julius Wilson, Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. Wilson's argument is that the disappearance of work and the consequences of that disappearance for both social and cultural life are the central problems in the inner-city ghetto. He sought to discuss social disorganization without stigmatizing the poor." [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n3_v32/ai_21232169 When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. - book reviews] " by Daryl Michael Scott] Wilson writes that chronic joblessness has deprived those in the inner city of skills necessary to obtain and keep jobs. Wilson's book uses evidence from large-scale scientific surveys in the ghetto and information culled from "ethnographic" interviews of ghetto residents in order to create a complete picture of the problems that face the residents. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n11_v28/ai_18855825 When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. - book reviews] Washington Monthly, Nov, 1996 by David Whitman]

Wilson writes that people who inhabit the disorganized, jobless ghettos face dim prospects. Poor public transportation often fails to provide access to job locations, stereotypes about poor blacks, especially black men also make jobs harder to find. Wilson rejects the idea that inner-city residents have a "culture of poverty" or damaged personalities. He holds that addressing the problem of joblessness is the solution to urban inner-city problems." [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n3_v32/ai_21232169 When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. - book reviews] " by Daryl Michael Scott] Wilson supports work programs modeled after Depression-era projects. [ [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/november96/wilson_11-29.html A Look at the Truly Disadvantaged] . PBS.org November 29, 1996]

Wilson ties the disappearance of inner-city jobs to industrial restructuring, suburbanization, foreign competition, and racism. [ [http://www.enotes.com/salem-lit/when-work-disappears When Work Disappears (Magill Book Reviews)] ]

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*Spatial mismatch

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* [http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679724179 When Work Disappears The World of the New Urban Poor] Information from the publisher, Random House


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