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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
©2001.
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| Series: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s5p3 |