Improving Poor People : : The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History / / Michael B. Katz.
"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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1997] ©1995 |
Year of Publication: | 1997 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (191 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. The Welfare State
- Chapter Two. The "Underclass"
- Chapter Three. Urban Schools
- Chapter Four. Surviving Poverty
- Index