When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor by William Julius Wilson

When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor

William Julius Wilson

352 pages • first pub 1996 (view editions)

nonfiction economics politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the ...

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