Improving Poor People : the Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History.
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2001
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| Summary: | "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 past. To understand contemporary poverty, he looks particularly at an old attitude: because many nineteenth-century reformers traced extreme poverty to drink, laziness, and other forms of bad behavior, they tried to use public policy and philanthropy to improve the character of poor people, rather than t. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400821709 1400821703 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
