Mingione Urban Poverty and the Underclass

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1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-71265-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series

Over the last two decades "poverty" has moved centrestage as anissue within the social sciences. This volume, edited by one ofEurope's foremost sociologists, aims to assess the debatessurrounding poverty and the responses to it, exploring the ways inwhich the various socio-political systems and welfarist regimes arebeing radically transformed. The essays examine how such change iseffected by failing welfare programmes and enervating socialstructures such as family and community which once would haveprovided mechanisms of social stability.
The first part of the book provides reflections on urbanpoverty; the second part discusses the widely debated idea of an"underclass" and its meanings in Europe and in the USA, and thefinal part draws on concrete empirical analyses to examine thepatterns of poverty thoughout Western Europe.
This volume will be of first-rate importance to all seriousstudents of politics, sociology, geography, public policy, youthand community studies, social policy and American studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mingione, Enzo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
List of Maps.
List of Tables.
Editorial Introduction: E. Mingione (University of Padova).
Part I: What is Urban Poverty?:.
1. Urban Poverty and the Underclass: E. Mingione (University ofPadova).
2. Downdrift: Provoking Agents and Symptom-Formation Factors inthe Process of Impoverishment: G. Micheli (CatholicUniversity).
3. Service Employment Regimes and the New Inequality: S. Sassen(Columbia University).
4. The Eselusi, The Homeless: A. Tosi (Politecnico ofMilan).
5. Culture, Politics, and National Discourses of the New UrbanPoverty: H. Silver (Brown University).
Part II: The Underclass Debate: Ethnicity, Class andCulture:.
6. From "Underclass" to "Undercaste": Some Observations aboutthe Future of the Post-Industrial Economy and its Major Victims: H.Gans (Columbia University).
7. A Note on Interpreting American Poverty: N. Fainstein (VassarCollege).
8. Dangerous Classes: Neglected Aspects of the UnderclassDebate: L. Morris (University of Essex).
9. Space and Race in the Post-Fordist City: The Outcast Ghettoand the Advanced Homelessness in the United States Today: P.Marcuse (Columbia University).
10. Minorities in Global Cities: New York and Los Angeles: J.Logan, R. Alba and T. McNulty (all University of New York atAlbany).
11. Red belt, Black belt, Articulating Color, Class and Place inChicago's Ghetto and the Parisian Periphery: L Wacquant (Universityof California).
Part III: The Poor in Europe: Marginality, Exlusion andWelfare:.
12. Social and Economic Change in Contemporary Britain: TheEmergence of an Urban Underclass?: N. Buck (University ofEssex).
13. The Social Morphology of the New Urban Poor in a WealthlyItalian City: the Case of Milan: F. Zajczyk (University ofMilan).
14. Exclusion from Work and the Impoverishment Processes inNaples: E. Morlicchio (University of Naples).
15. Urban Poverty in Germany: a Comparative Analysis of theProfile of the Poor in Stuttgart and Berlin: H. Haussermann(Humboldt University of Berlin) and Y. Kazepov (University ofMilan).
Conclusions: E. Mingione (University of Padova).
References.

Über Autor(innen)

Enzo Mingione is Professor of Sociology at the University of Padova. His main fields of interest and research are poverty, unemployment and informal work. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and of Inchiesta. He has been a member of the EEC expert team on "The Underground Economy and Irregular Forms of Employment" and has written, with Mauro Magatti, a report on "The Informal Sector" for the European Commission.