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When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor
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  • William Julius Wilson

    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. In More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (2009) he…

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    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. In More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (2009) he…

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