دانلود کتاب Urban Poverty and the Underclass: A Reader

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 thoughout Western Europe. 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. Content: Chapter 1 Urban Poverty in the Advanced Industrial World: Concepts, Analysis and Debates (pages 1–40): Enzo MingioneChapter 2 Downdrift: Provoking Agents and Symptom?Formation Factors in the Process of Impoverishment (pages 41–63): Giuseppe A. MicheliChapter 3 Service Employment Regimes and the New Inequality (pages 64–82): Saskia SassenChapter 4 The Excluded and the Homeless: The Social Construction of the Fight Against Poverty in Europe (pages 83–104): Antonio TosiChapter 5 Culture, Politics and National Discourses of the New Urban Poverty (pages 105–138): Hilay SilverChapter 6 From ‘Underclass’ to ‘Undercaste’: Some Observations About the Future of the Post?Industrial Economy and its Major Victims (pages 39–152): Herbert J. GansChapter 7 A Note on Interpreting American Poverty (pages 153–159): Norman FainsteinChapter 8 Dangerous Classes: Neglected Aspects of the Underclass Debate (pages 160–175): Lydia MorrisChapter 9 Space and Race in the Post?Fordist City: The Outcast Ghetto and Advanced Homelessness in the United States Today (pages 176–216): Peter MarcuseChapter 10 Minorities in Global Cities: New York and Los Angeles (pages 217–233): John Logan, Richard D. Alba and Thomas L. McNultyChapter 11 Red Belt, Black Belt: Racial Division, Class Inequality and the State in the French Urban Periphery and the American Ghetto (pages 234–274): Loic J. D. WacquantChapter 12 Social and Economic Change in Contemporary Britain: The Emergence of an Urban Underclass? (pages 275–297): Nick BuckChapter 13 The Social Morphology of the New Urban Poor in a Wealthy Italian City: The Case of Milan (pages 299–324): Francesca ZajczykChapter 14 Exclusion from Work and the Impoverishment Processes in Naples (pages 325–342): Enrica MorlicchioChapter 15 Urban Poverty in Germany: A Comparative Analysis of the Profile of the Poor in Stuttgart and Berlin (pages 343–369): Hartmut Haussermann and Yuri KazepovChapter 16 Conclusion (pages 370–383): Enso Mingione