When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson

When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson

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 personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to drugs and violent crime--stem directly from the disappearance of blue-collar jobs in the wake of a globalized economy. Wilson's achievement is to portray this crisis as one that affects all Americans, and to propose solutions whose benefits would be felt across our society. At a time when welfare is ending and our country's racial dialectic is more strained than ever, When Work Disappears is a sane, courageous, and desperately important work.



"Wilson is the keenest liberal analyst of the most perplexing of all American problems... This book is more ambitious and more accessible than anything he has done before."
--The New Yorker

Lewis P. Wilson is William Julius Wilson. Linda L. and Linda L. Honorary University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Malcolm Wiener Institute for Social Policy and the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program. He is the author of several books, including the University of Chicago Press's The Decreasing Importance of Race and The Really Disadvantaged.

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ISBN 13	9780679724179
ISBN 10	0679724176
Title	When Work Disappears
Author	William Julius Wilson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1997-07-29
Number of pages	352
Prizes	Winner of Sidney Hillman Prize 1996
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