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18 produkter
The Undeserving Poor
America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised
Häftad, 2013
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504 kr
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First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz's new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will force …
Undeserving Poor
America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised
E-bok, 2013
343 kr
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First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America''s enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz''s new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will force …
Undeserving Poor
America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised
E-bok, 2013
343 kr
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First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America''s enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz''s new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will force …
Reconstructing American Education
Häftad, 1989
340 kr
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One of the leading historians of education in the United States here develops a powerful interpretation of the uses of history in educational reform and of the relations among democracy, education, and the capitalist state. Michael Katz discusses the reshaping of American education from three …
"Underclass" Debate
Views from History
Häftad, 1992
790 kr
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Do ominous reports of an emerging "underclass" reveal an unprecedented crisis in American society? Or are social commentators simply rediscovering the tragedy of recurring urban poverty, as they seem to do every few decades? Although social scientists and members of the public make frequent …
Improving Poor People
The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History
Häftad, 1997
445 kr
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"There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and scholarship. But this major historian of urban poverty realizes that the pain in these cities has its origins in the American …
"e;Underclass"e; Debate
Views from History
E-bok, 2018
1146 kr
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Do ominous reports of an emerging "e;underclass"e; reveal an unprecedented crisis in American society? Or are social commentators simply rediscovering the tragedy of recurring urban poverty, as they seem to do every few decades? Although social scientists and members of the public make …
Why Don't American Cities Burn?
E-bok, 2012
424 kr
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At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia-one of seven homicides to occur in the city that …
Public Education Under Siege
E-bok, 2013
475 kr
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Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that all children should receive a quality education, and that all of them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever their ethnicity or economic circumstances. But though recent years have seen numerous reform efforts, the resources …
W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City
"the Philadelphia Negro" and Its Legacy
Av Michael B. Katz, Thomas J. Sugrue
Häftad, 1998
389 kr
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In 1896 W. E. B. Du Bois began research that resulted three years later in the publication of his great classic of urban sociology and history, The Philadelphia Negro. Today, a group of the nation's leading historians and sociologists celebrate the centenary of his project through a reappraisal of …
Price of Citizenship
Redefining the American Welfare State
Häftad, 2008
794 kr
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For Michael B. Katz, the term "welfare state" describes the intricate web of government programs, employer-provided benefits, and semiprivate organizations intended to promote economic security and to guarantee the basic necessities of life for all citizens: food, shelter, medical care, protection …
Why Don't American Cities Burn?
Häftad, 2013
245 kr
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At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia-one of seven homicides to occur in the city that …
Public Education Under Siege
Häftad, 2014
378 kr
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Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that all children should receive a quality education, and that all of them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever their ethnicity or economic circumstances. But though recent years have seen numerous reform efforts, the resources …
Public Education Under Siege
Inbunden, 2013
606 kr
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Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that all children should receive a quality education, and that all of them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever their ethnicity or economic circumstances. But though recent years have seen numerous reform efforts, the resources …
Improving Poor People
The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History
E-bok, 1997
599 kr
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"There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America''s inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and scholarship. But this major historian of urban poverty realizes that the pain in these cities has its origins in the American …
Poverty and Policy in American History
Av Michael B. Katz, Edward Shorter m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
807 kr
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Poverty and Policy in American History is about people who needed help in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is about the ways in which the perception of poverty and other forms of dependence affected the development of public programs and the conduct of voluntary reform. It also …
The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century City
Inbunden, 1899
1123 kr
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The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century City
Häftad
764 kr
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