ISBN:
9780470712900
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0470712902
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9780470712658
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0470712651
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9780631200376
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0631200371
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xix, 426 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
Series Statement:
Studies in urban and social change
Series Statement:
Studies in urban and social change.
Parallel Title:
Print version: Urban poverty and the underclass.
DDC:
362.5/09173/2
Keywords:
Urban poor.
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Urban poor
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People with social disabilities.
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People with social disabilities
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Homelessness.
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Pauvres en milieu urbain.
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Pauvres en milieu urbain
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Handicapés sociaux.
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Handicapés sociaux
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Sans-abri.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE Poverty & Homelessness.
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Homelessness.
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People with social disabilities.
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Urban poor.
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Armoede.
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Thuislozen.
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Steden.
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Armen (personen)
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Onaangepastheid.
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Armut
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Industriegesellschaft
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Soziale Situation
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Stadt
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Unterschicht
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Europe.
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USA.
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Westeuropa
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Homelessness
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People with social disabilities
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People with social disabilities
;
Europe
;
Socially handicapped
;
Urban poor
;
Urban poor
;
Europe
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Electronic books.
Abstract:
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-political systems and welfarist regimes are being radically transformed. The essays examine how such change is effected by failing welfare programmes and enervating social structures such as family and community which once would have provided mechanisms of social stability. The first part of the book provides reflections on urban poverty; the second part discusses the widely debated idea of an 'underclass' and its meanings in Europe and in the USA, and the final part draws on concrete empirical analyses to examine the patterns of poverty throughout the Western Europe.
Abstract:
This volume will be of first-rate importance to all serious students of politics, sociology, geography, public policy, youth and community studies, social policy and American studies.
Description / 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.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470712900
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470712900
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470712900
