when work disappears the world of the new urban poor william julius wilson
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When Work Disappears The World of the new urban poor William Julius Wilson. Lindsey Boyett Erin Miller Amy Pitlik Politics 367 May 14, 2004 Dr. Craig Allin. As An Outsider Looking In: Class Participation Poll. Is joblessness due to: fatherless households? Drugs? Violent crime? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
When Work DisappearsThe World of the new urban poor
William Julius Wilson Lindsey Boyett Erin Miller Amy Pitlik
Politics 367May 14, 2004Dr. Craig Allin
As An Outsider Looking In:Class Participation PollIs joblessness due to: fatherless households?
Drugs?
Violent crime?
Welfare?
Behavioral patterns?
All of the above?
William Julius WilsonBackground History
(b. Dec. 20, 1935, Derry Township, Penn., U.S.), African-American sociologist whose views on race and urban poverty helped shape U.S. public policy and academic discourse. In two seminal works,
Wilson maintained that class divisions and global economic changes, more than racism, created a large black underclass. In When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (1996), he showed how chronic joblessness deprived those in the inner city of skills necessary to obtain and keep jobs.
New Urban Poverty Methodology Who Are the New Urban Poor? Economic, Social, & Political
Factors
Methodology Urban poverty and family life study
Statistical Data Anecdotal Evidence
Who are the New Urban Poor? Individuals who live in poor, segregated
neighborhoods home to a substantial amount of unemployed adults.
African Americans are disproportionately disadvantaged due to their degree of segregation, isolation, & poverty concentration
Economic Factors Deindustrialization
Expansion of high skill jobs, loss of manufacturing sector
Loss of inner-city jobs to suburban market
Social Factors Strength of social organization Level of residential
participation/responsibility Strength of formal institutions and
informal networks
Political Factors Federal Housing Policy Minimum Wage Poverty Threshold Welfare
The Social Policy Challenge Current Policies Obstacles surrounding better
public policy The Future of policy
recommendations
Current Policies
Welfare Healthcare Affirmative action
Obstacles inhibiting better public policy Ethnic collisions Exportation of jobs White based ideas
The future of policy recommendations
Reshaping welfare Halting racial segregation Relationships
Cities and suburbs Employment, family support,
education
Concluding Thoughts and Perspectives
With the disappearance of work, self-efficacy fails and jobless rates will skyrocket.
No matter how far you are down the road, getting discouraged will only set you back halfway.
“Life is what you make it. No one is going to give you something for nothing”
Current political situations should enable us to address social inequality in America.
Conclusion Continued
One has not succeeded in America unless one can pass the chance for success on to one’s children.
We must break the cycle of joblessness to improve future generations for the new labor market and global economy.