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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Autor principal: O'Connor, Alice, 1958- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2001.
Col·lecció:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s5p3