TY  - GEN
T1  - Poverty knowledge : social science, social policy, and the poor in twentieth-century U.S. history
T2  - Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
A1  - O'Connor, Alice, 1958-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm52137360
AB  - Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. Poverty Knowledge gives the first comprehensive historical account of the thinking behind these very different views of "the poverty problem," in a century-spanning inquiry into the politics, institutions, ideologies, and social science that shaped poverty research and policy. Alice O'Connor chronicles a transformation in the study of poverty, from a reform-minded inquiry into the political economy of industrial capitalism to a detached, highly technical analysis of the demographic and behavioral characteristics of the poor. Along the way, she uncovers the origins of several controversial concepts, including the "culture of poverty" and the "underclass." She shows how such notions emerged not only from trends within the social sciences, but from the central preoccupations of twentieth-century American liberalism: economic growth, the Cold War against communism, the changing fortunes of the welfare state, and the enduring racial divide
OP  - 373
CN  - HC110.P6 O33 2001eb
SN  - 1400814502
SN  - 9781400814503
SN  - 9781400824748
SN  - 1400824745
SN  - 1282087487
SN  - 9781282087484
SN  - 9780691102559
SN  - 0691102554
SN  - 0691009171
SN  - 9780691009179
KW  - Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer : Bitterfeld
KW  - Poverty : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Poor : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Economic assistance, Domestic : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Unemployment.
KW  - Welfare recipients
KW  - Unemployment
KW  - Class consciousness
KW  - Pauvreté : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Pauvres : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Aide au développement économique régional : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Chômage.
KW  - unemployment.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Poverty & Homelessness.
KW  - Economic assistance, Domestic
KW  - Poor
KW  - Poverty
KW  - United States
KW  - Armut
KW  - Sozialhilfe
KW  - Sozialpolitik
KW  - Sozialwissenschaften
KW  - USA
KW  - Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek.
KW  - Armoede.
KW  - Sociale politiek.
KW  - Pauvreté : Etats-Unis : 20e siècle.
KW  - Pauvres : Etats-Unis : 20e siècle.
KW  - USA.
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -