7. The Benefits of Poverty

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Part One: The City
5. 1. Some Problems of and Futures for Urban Sociology: Toward a Sociology of Settlements 1
6. 2. The Sociology of Space: A Use-Centered View 17
7. 3. Involuntary Segregation and the Ghetto: Disconnecting Process and Place 34
8. 4. Concentrated Poverty: A Critical Analysis 41
9. Part Two: Poverty
10. 5. Studying the Bottom of American Society 55
11. 6. The Challenge of Multigenerational Poverty 72
12. 7. The Benefits of Poverty 83
13. Part Three: Jobs and the Political Economy
14. 8. Superfluous Workers: The Labor Market’s Invisible Discards 95
15. 9. Work-Time Reduction: Possibilities and Problems 108
16. 10. Basic Income: A Remedy for a Sick Labor Market? 118
17. 11. Seeking a Political Solution to the Economy’s Problems 128
18. 12. High School Economics Texts and the American Economy 138
19. Part Four: Race and Class
20. 13. Race as Class 151
21. 14. “Whitening” and the Changing American Racial Hierarchy 163
22. 15. The Moynihan Report and Its Aftermaths: A Critical Analysis 181
23. Part Five: Ethnicity
24. 16. The Coming Darkness of Late-Generation European-American Ethnicity 199
25. 17. The End of Late-Generation European Ethnicity in America? 213
26. Appendix: Working in Six Research Areas-A Multi-Field Sociological Career 229