America’s Struggle against Poverty, 1900–1994 : : Revised Edition / / James T. Patterson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Patterson, James T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Enl. ed. Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; PREFACE, 1994 --; PREFACE, 1985 --; PREFACE, 1981 --; CONTENTS --; I. THE PREVENTIVE IMPULSE 1900–1930 --; 1. SNAPSHOTS OF THE POOR --; 2. THE GOSPEL OF PREVENTION, PROGRESSIVE STYLE --; II. COPING AND REHABILITATION 1930–1960 --; 3. THE POOR IN THE DEPRESSION --; 4. THE EARLY WELFARE STATE --; 5. WITHERING AWAY --; III. DOORS TO OPPORTUNITY 1960–1965 --; 6. THE REDISCOVERY OF POVERTY --; 7. A CULTURE OF POVERTY? --; 8. GIRDING FOR WAR ON POVERTY --; 9. OEO: A HAND UP, NOT A HANDOUT --; IV. THE UNSUNG REVOLUTION 1965–1973 --; 10. THE REVOLUTION IN SOCIAL WELFARE --; 11. THE WELFARE EXPLOSION --; 12. FLOORS AND DOORS --; V. REACTIONS, 1980–1994 --; 13. STALEMATE --; 14. REGRESSION IN THE EARLY 1980s --; 15. WELFARE REFORM: NO CONSENSUS --; NOTES --; RESOURCES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674423718; 9783110353488; 9783110353563; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674423718
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: James T. Patterson.

THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION. In this probing history of twentieth-century American attitudes toward the poor, James Patterson explores how we have viewed poverty and what our welfare reformers have tried to do about it. It is a history broad in scope--and one that is especially pertinent to the ongoing welfare-reform debate.