The Undeserving Poor is a history of the ideas that underlie America's enduring confrontation with poverty. The book shows that poverty remains a national disgrace in part because of the way we define and think about it - which, in turn, shapes the energy we put, or don't put, into its eradication.
The Undeserving Poor is a history of the ideas that underlie America's enduring confrontation with poverty. The book shows that poverty remains a national disgrace in part because of the way we define and think about it - which, in turn, shapes the energy we put, or don't put, into its eradication.
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 Cities Burn?, The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State, and In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: 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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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