Poverty Knowledge : : Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.s. History
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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.
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Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
PUBLISHED
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001.
Year Published: 2001
Description: xi, 373 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0691009171 :
SUBJECTS
Poverty -- History -- 20th century.
Poor -- History -- 20th century.
Economic assistance, Domestic -- History -- 20th century.