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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Tác giả chính: O'Connor, Alice, 1958- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2001.
Loạt:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s5p3
Mục lục:
  • 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.