Books:

Anderson, Elijah.  Street Wise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (1990);

Auletta, Ken.  The Underclass (1982);

Clark, Kenneth B. Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power (1965);

Dahrendorf. Class and Conflict in an Industrial Society (2022, in German 1957);

Darity, William A., Jr. "Economists, the Minimum Wage, and the Underclass", in Cottingham, Clement (ed.) Race, Poverty, and the Urban Underclass (1982);

Darity, William A., Jr. "Racial Inequality in the Managerial Age: An Alternative Vision to the NRC Report", in The American Economic Review (1990);

Darity, William A., Jr., Samuel Myers, Emmett Carson, and William Sabol. The Black Underclass: Critical Essays on Race and Unwantedness (1994);

Duncan, G. J., R. D. Coe, and M. S. Hill. In Years of Poverty, Years of Plenty (1984);

Engels. The Condition of the Working Class in England (1885, in German 1845);

Gans. ‘‘Deconstructing the Underclass: The Term’s Danger as a Planning Concept’’, in Journal of the American Planning Association (1990);

     -     The War against the Poor (1995);

Glasgow, Douglas G. The Black Underclass: Poverty, Unemployment, and Entrapment of Ghetto Youth (1980);

Jargowsky, Paul A. Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City (1997);

Jencks, Christopher ‘‘What Is the Underclass—and Is It Growing?’’, in Focus (1989);

Jencks, Christopher and Paul Peterson (eds.). The Urban Underclass (1991);

Kasarda, John D. ‘‘Urban Change and Minority Opportunities’’ In Paul Peterson (ed.). The New Urban Reality (1985);

     -      ‘‘Urban Industrial Transition and the Underclass’’, in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (1989);

     -     ‘‘Inner City Concentrated Poverty and Neighborhood Distress: 1970 to 1990’’, in Housing Policy Debate (1993);

     -     , and Kwok-Fai Ting. ‘‘Joblessness and Poverty in America’s Central Cities: Causes and Policy Prescriptions’, in’ Housing Policy Debate (1996);

Katz, Michael. The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare (1989);

Katz, Michael B., ed. The “Underclass” Debate: Views from History (1993);

Levy, Frank. ‘‘How Big Is the American Underclass?’’ (1977);

Lewis, Oscar. La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York (1966); 

Magnet, Myron. The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties’ Legacy to the Underclass (1993);

Marx. The Communist Manifesto (in German 1948); 

     -     Class Struggles in France (in German 1850);

     -     The XVIII Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (in German 1852);

     -     Capital Vol. 1, 2, & 3: The Only Complete and Unabridged Edition in One Volume (2020, in German 1867, 1885, 1894);

Massey, Douglas S., and Nancy Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (1993); 

Mincy, Ronald B., Isabel V. Sawhill, and Douglas A. Wolf. ‘‘The Underclass: Definition and Measurement’’ in Science (1990);

Mincy, Ronald B., and Susan J. Wiener. The Under Class in the 1980s: Changing Concepts, Changing Realty (1993); 

Murray, Charles A. Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 (1984);

Murray, Charles. The Underclass Revisited (1999);

Myrdal, G. Challenge to Affluence (1963);

     -     The Challenge of World Poverty: A World Anti-Poverty Program in Outline (1970);

Rex. The Ghetto and the Underclass (1987);

Reischauer, Robert D. The Geographic Concentration of Poverty: What Do We Know? (1987);

Ricketts, Erol, and Isabel Sawhill ‘‘Defining and Measuring the Underclass’’, in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (1988);

Ricketts, Erol, and Ronald Mincy. Growth of the Underclass: 1970–1980. Journal of Human Resources (1990);

Runciman. „How Many Classes are There in Contemporary British Society?“, in Sociology (1990);

Wilson W. “Cycles of Deprivation and the Underclass Debate”, in Social Science Review (1985);

     -     The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner-City, The Underclass, and Public Policy (1987);

     -     When Work Disappears (1996);

     -     ‘‘Studying Inner-City Social Dislocations.’’ American Sociological Review (1991);

Wright. Understanding Class (2015).