When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson
The World of the New Urban Poor
An analysis of the rise of chronic joblessness in inner-city African-American communities, arguing that structural economic shifts—deindustrialization, suburbanization, and the withdrawal of employers—combined with residential segregation and policy failures have produced concentrated poverty, social isolation, increased crime, and family instability. It attributes neighborhood decline less to individual failings than to changes in the labor market and recommends job-creation, employment subsidies, and place-based interventions to restore economic opportunity and social cohesion.
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- 1996
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