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Analysis Of When Work Disappears By William Julies

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William Julies in his book, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. He tries to address and discuss what happens when jobs leave the black communities and what is the reason jobs are leave the inner cities of black communities. He claims that work disappears because of poor economic conditions and academically abled works in poor or black communities. As a result, jobs tend to move to suburbs or to other countries even. He says that this cause a chain of events, when big businesses leave smaller business lack the customers able to buy their products and that causes those small mom and pop companies to close down as well, leaving the black community in a state of distress. The author addresses these problems and attempt to give his own input on how to solve each one. William finds that racial …show more content…

We as black people should be even with white people if racism and lynching are over. However, it is clear that we are not. From writing this paper, I was hoping to finally get the answers I desired. I thought at first I should read a book that was just recently written and may have some insight on what is going on in this century so as a result I choose the book, “When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor” by, William Julies. He made an amazing effort to address why Black people are stuck in poverty while white people are able to advance every day. Following “When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor”, I read, “New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture “, by William L. Van. I thought maybe if I went back in time to an era where blacks were fighting for equality I would be able to find out if what they did back then, like the “Civil Rights Movement and the “Black Panther Movement” had an impact on the culture of today. I did find my answer however; it was not the answer I wanted. It was made clear those liberals seen in the movements in past are hard to come by in today’s

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