List of Figures. >List of Maps. >List of Tables. >Editorial Introduction: E. Mingione (University of Padova). > Part I: What is Urban Poverty?: > > 1. Urban Poverty and the Underclass: E. Mingione (University of Padova). >2. Downdrift: Provoking Agents and Symptom-Formation Factors in the Process of Impoverishment: G. Micheli (Catholic University). >3. Service Employment Regimes and the New Inequality: S. Sassen (Columbia University). >4. The Eselusi, The Homeless: A. Tosi (Politecnico of Milan). >5. Culture, Politics, and National Discourses of the New Urban Poverty: H. Silver (Brown University). > Part II: The Underclass Debate: Ethnicity, Class and Culture: > >6. From "Underclasss" to "Undercaste": Some Observations about the Future of the Post-Industrial Economy and its Major Victims: H. Gans (Columbia University). >7. A Note on Interpreting American Poverty: N. Fainstein (Vassar College). >8. Dangerous Classes: Neglected Aspects of the Underclass Debate: L. Morris (University of Essex). >9. Space and Race in the Post-Fordist City: The Outcast Ghetto and the Advanced Homelessness in the United States Today: P. Marcuse (Columbia University). >10. Minorities in Global Cities: New York and Los Angeles: J. Logan, R. Alba and T. McNulty (all University of New York at Albany). >11. Red belt, Black belt, Articulating Color, Class and Place in Chicago's Ghetto and the Parisian Periphery: L Wacquant (University of California). > Part III: The Poor in Europe: Marginality, Exlusion and Welfare: > >12. Social and Economic Change in Contemporary Britain: The Emergence of a Urban Underclass?: N. Buck (University of Essex). >13. The Social Morphology of the New Urban Poor in a Wealthly Italian City: the Case of Milan: F. Zajczyk (University of Milan). >14. Exclusion from Work and the Impoverishment Processes in Naples: E. Morlicchio (University of Naples). >15. Urban Poverty in Germany: a Comparative Analysis of the Profile of the Poor in Stuttgart and Berlin: H. Haussermann (Humboldt University of Berlin) and Y. Kazepov (University of Milan). >Conclusions: E. Mingione (University of Padova). >References.