The "Underclass" Debate: Views from History

Book Overview

Do ominous reports of an emerging "underclass" reveal an unprecedented crisis in American society? Or are social commentators simply rediscovering the tragedy of recurring urban poverty, as they seem to do every few decades? Although social scientists and members of the public make frequent assumptions about these questions, they have little information about the crucial differences between past and present. By providing a badly needed historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691006288
• ISBN13: 9780691006284
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"