The underclass / (Record no. 76875)
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| control field | 20211104034512.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 830409s1982 nyum b a00110 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0394523431 : |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (AEA)9E0E9BDE02B24C4AB594C028584A8FF9 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | HV 4045 |
| Item number | .Au51 1982 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Auletta, Ken. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 82921 |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The underclass / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Ken Auletta. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Random House, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | c1982. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xviii, 348 p. |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes index. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Bibliography: p. [320]-336. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Ken Auletta's The Underclass , first published in 1982, proposes to uncover who constitutes the poorest of Americans, and how they might best be aided by government and industry. While updated and revised to consider changes in both poverty and policy over the past 20 years, the book remains centered on Auletta's research of the late 1970s. Auletta, a staff writer at The New Yorker , focuses primarily on the very poor students attending basic skills classes through the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), a Manhattan-based antipoverty nonprofit that had been having good results helping members of the "underclass" become working members of society. For contrasting examples, he also briefly explores the extreme poverty of whites living in Appalachia and rural blacks in Mississippi. The problems he finds are complex, but not necessarily intractable. Positioning himself as neither a liberal or a conservative, Auletta calls himself "too optimistic to accept the laissez-faire theory, and too pessimistic to embrace wholesale government solutions." Instead, he encourages programs such as the MDRC, which use what he calls a "tough love" approach to helping the very poor. How many people constitute "the underclass"? What role does race play? Who is responsible for the problem of poverty in America? Readers who ask these questions will find answers, and much to debate, in this well-researched study. --Maria Dolan |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | People with social disabilities |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 110608 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Poor |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 71004 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | American Learning Resource |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Inventory number | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | 05/06/2011 | ALRC-001669 | HV 4045 .Au51 1982 | 9ALRC201101669 | 11/04/2021 | 11/04/2021 | American Learning Resource |
