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xii Box 3.1 Neighborhoods Apart: Natural and Man-Made Boundaries 41 Box 3.2 White Working-Class Family Support 44 Box 4.1 Loss of Community: Social Capital in Baltimore’s Poor Black Communities 64 Box 5.1 Transitioning to Adulthood the Old-Fashioned Way 80 Box 5.2 Done All, the Back Story 82 Box 6.1 Three Community College Enrollment Spells Without a Degree 102 Box 8.1 Making It in the New Economy the Old-Fashioned Way: Two Tales 164 Figure 7.1 Origins to Destinations in Life-Course Perspective 129 Figure 7.2 Problem Behaviors in Adulthood 151 Photo 2.1 Bethlehem Steel Plant at Sparrows Point 22 Photo 2.2 Baltimore’s Downtown Inner Harbor 25 Photo 2.3 Classic Baltimore Working-Class Row Homes 27 Photo 2.4 Distressed Row Homes 27 Table 1.1 The Corner in 2000 Census Data 5 Table 1.2 The Corner in 1980 Census Data 8 Table 3.1 Family Socioeconomics and Demographics of Birth Families 35 Table 4.1 Neighborhood Conditions, Circa 1980 54 Table 4.2 Crime Exposure, Neighborhood Rates/100,000, 1980–1982 Averaged 57 Table 4.3 Neighborhood Quality Through Resident Surveys, 1980 60 Table 4.4 Racial and Income Composition of Baltimore Elementary Schools, 1982 66 Table 4.5 Academic Profile for the Schools 70 List of Illustrations List of Illustrations xiii Table 4.6 School Resources: Staffing and Infrastructure for the Schools 72 Table 5.1 Transitioning to Adulthood, Milestones Passed 78 Table 5.2 Milestones to Adulthood: High-Prevalence Configurations 78 Table 5.3 Women’s Priorities Across Social Lines 87 Table 6.1 Percent Months Employed and Percent Months in School 93 Table 6.2 Highest Levels of Educational Enrollment and Completion at Age Twenty-Eight 97 Table 6.3 Most Recent Full-Time Job 105 Table 6.4 Representative Occupations at Age Twenty-Eight 107 Table 6.5 Schooling, Earnings, and Occupational Status 108 Table 6.6 Women’s Personal and Family Earnings 113 Table 6.7 Employment History and Marital-Partnership Status 115 Table 6.8 SES Destinations: Lower, Middle, and Higher, by Race-Gender 117 Table 7.1 Intergenerational Mobility 124 Table 7.2 Origins to Destinations: Individual Socioeconomic Status (Standardized Regression Coefficients) 134 Table 7.3 Origins to Destinations: Family Socioeconomic Status (Standardized Regression Coefficients) 137 Table 7.4 Origins to Destinations: Years of Education (Standardized Regression Coefficients) 138 Table 7.5 Origins to Destinations: Occupational Status (Standardized Regression Coefficients) 139 Table 7.6 Origins to Destinations: Individual Earnings (Standardized Regression Coefficients) 140 Table 7.7 Origins to Destinations: Family Earnings (Standardized Regression Coefficients) 141 Table 8.1 Earnings, Personal and Family (Standardized Regression Coefficients) 159 Table 8.2 Working-Class Families and Social Capital: Help Finding Work at Age Twenty-Two 162 Table 8.3 Vocational Development of Noncollege Men 163 Table 9.1 Reflections on Life’s Trajectory 174 Table 9.2 Occupational Status and Earnings 180 Table B.1 Attrition Analysis 198 Table B.2 Panel Attrition 201 Table B.3 Years of Education Completed 204 ...

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