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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Some Problems of and Futures for Urban Sociology: Toward a Sociology of Settlements -- 2. The Sociology of Space: A Use-Centered View -- 3. Involuntary Segregation and the Ghetto: Disconnecting Process and Place -- 4. Concentrated Poverty: A Critical Analysis -- 5. Studying the Bottom of American Society -- 6. The Challenge of Multigenerational Poverty -- 7. The Benefits of Poverty -- 8. Superfluous Workers: The Labor Market's Invisible Discards -- 9. Work-Time Reduction: Possibilities and Problems -- 10. Basic Income: A Remedy for a Sick Labor Market? -- 11. Seeking a Political Solution to the Economy's Problems -- 12. High School Economics Texts and the American Economy -- 13. Race as Class -- 14. "Whitening" and the Changing American Racial Hierarchy -- 15. The Moynihan Report and Its Aftermaths: A Critical Analysis -- 16. The Coming Darkness of Late-Generation European-American Ethnicity -- 17. The End of Late-Generation European Ethnicity in America? -- Appendix: Working in Six Research Areas-A Multi-Field Sociological Career

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