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.)

THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION.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.

Table of Contents

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