America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised
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Köp båda 2 för 508 krWilliam Julius Wilson, University of Chicago A convincing and clear historical perspective on the peculiar perceptions of poverty and welfare in the United States .
<br>Michael B. Katz is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and a Research Associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. The author of Why Don't American CitiesBurn?, The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State, and In the Shadow of thePoorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America, he is a past-president of the History of Education Society and the Urban History Association. The first edition of The Undeserving Poor was a semi-finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and a finalist for the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Book Award.<br>
PREFACE ; CHAPTER ONE ; THE UNDESERVING POOR: MORALS, CULTURE AND BIOLOGY ; CHAPTER TWO ; POVERTY AND THE POLITICS OF LIBERATION ; CHAPTER THREE ; INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE WAR ON POVERTY AND GREAT SOCIETY ; CHAPTER FOUR ; INTERPRETATIONS OF POVERTY IN THE CONSERVATIVE ASCENDANCE ; CHAPTER FIVE ; THE RISE AND FALL OF THE <"UNDERCLASS>" ; EPILOGUE ; WHAT KIND OF A PROBLEM IS POVERTY? ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; INDEX