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ED348406.Pdf DOCUMENT RESUME ED 348 406 UD 026 925 AUTHOR Wilson, William Julius, Ed. TITLE The Ghetto Underclass: Social Science Perspectives. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. INSTITUTION American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia, Pa. REPORT NO ISBN-0-8039-3174-3 PUB DATE Jan 89 NOTE 245p. AVAILABLE FROMSage Publications, Inc., 2111 West Hillcrest Drive, Newbury Park, CA 91320 (ISBN-0-8039-3174.-3, $24.00 paperback; ISBN-0-8039-3173-5, $36.00 hardcover). PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) -- Reports - Research/Technical (143) JOURNAL CIT The Annals; v501 Jan 1989 EDRS PRICE MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS Family (Sociological Unit); Fathers; *Ghettos; Homeless People; Influences; Lower Class; Marriage; *Minority Groups; Mothers; *Poverty; *Public Policy; *Social Problems; Unemployment; *Urban Areas; Urban Problems ABSTRACT This volume presents the research findings of numerous scholars on the theme, The Ghetto Underclass: Social Science Perspectives. The following 13 articles are included: (1) "The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City" (L. Wacquant and W. Wilson); (2) "Urban Industrial TransitiOn and the Underclass" (J. Kasarda); (3) "Absent Fathers in the Inner City" (M. Sullivan); (4) "Sex Codes and Family Life among Poor Inner-City Youths" (E. Anderson); (5) "Employment and Marriage among Inner-City Fathers" (M. Testa, and others); (6) "Single Mothers, the Underclass, and Social Policy" (S. McLanahan and I. Garfinkel); (7) "Puerto Ricans and t.l.c Underclass Debate', (M. Tienda); (8) "Immigration and the Underclass" (R. Reischauer); (9) "The Urban Homeless: A Portrait of Urban Dislocation" (P. Rossi and J. Wright); (10) "Equal Opportunity and the Estranged Poor" (J. Hochschild); (11) "The Logic of Workfare: The UnderClass and Work Policy" (L. Mead); (12) "Institutional Change and the Challenge of the Underclass" (R. Nathan); and (13) "The Underclass: Issues, Perspectives, and Public Policy" (W. Wilson). The .volume also includes reviews of 41 books in the following categories: (1) International Relations and Politics; (2) Africa,Asia, and Latin America; (3) Europe;(4) United states;(5) Sociology; and (6) Economics. 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