Poverty knowledge : social science, social policy, and the poor in twentieth-century U.S. history /
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...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
©2001.
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| سلاسل: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s5p3 |
جدول المحتويات:
- Origins: poverty and social science in the era of progressive reform
- Poverty knowledge as cultural critique: the Great Depression
- From the Deep South to the dark ghetto: poverty knowledge, racial liberalism, and cultural "pathology"
- Giving birth to a "culture of poverty": poverty knowledge in postwar behavioral science, culture, and ideology
- Community action
- In the midst of plenty: the political economy of poverty in the affluent society
- Fighting poverty with knowledge: the Office of Economic Opportunity and the analytic revolution in government
- Poverty's culture wars
- The poverty research industry
- Dependency, the "underclass," and a new welfare "consensus": poverty knowledge for a post-liberal, postindustrial era
- The end of welfare and the case for a new poverty knowledge.