The greatest of evils : urban poverty and the American underclass / Joel A. Devine and James D. Wright.
The debate on persisting poverty in the United States, somewhat dampened for the past decade, has now been fully rekindled. Devine and Wright have entered that debate with an analysis that is both quantitative and qualitative, informed on the one side by urban ethnography and steeped in official sta...
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New York :
A. de Gruyter,
©1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Poverty, Misery, and Waste
- 1. The Definition and Measurement of Poverty
- 2. Poverty Then and Now: What's Different, What's the Same?
- 3. The Contemporary Demography of Poverty
- 4. Who and What Is the Urban Underclass?
- 5. The Persistence of Poverty
- 6. The Inner Logic of the Underclass
- 7. An Agenda for the Future.