Abstract
This paper is in part a preliminary report of a study of a National Alliance of Business ( NAB ) training program for hard-core unemployed in the industrial community of West San Diego, California and the ghetto community of Southeast San Diego. The objectives of the study are (1) to determine the effects of stable employment on the lives of the hard-core poor and (2) to ascertain the impact of these people on the industrial organization of which they are becoming members. My interest, however, is not so much in the technical significance of this new experience for industry and formerly unemployed workers as in the philosophical and theoretical issues involved in the undertaking. Industry's perceptions of poverty and of their role in combating it in this program reveal a different and contrasting thesis from that implied (and sometimes stated explicitly) in the "culture of poverty" concept.
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