Poverty Knowledge : : Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History / / Alice O'Connor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: O'Connor, Alice,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and Society in Modern America ; 59
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. Poverty Knowledge...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• PART ONE
• Chapter 1. Origins: Poverty and Social Science in The Era of Progressive Reform
• Chapter 2. Poverty Knowledge as Cultural Critique: The Great Depression
• Chapter 3. From the Deep South to the Dark Ghetto: Poverty Knowledge, Racial Liberalism, and Cultural "Pathology"
• Chapter 4. Giving Birth to a "Culture of Poverty": Poverty Knowledge in Postwar Behavioral Science, Culture, and Ideology
• Chapter 5. Community Action
• PART TWO
• Chapter 6. In the Midst of Plenty: The Political Economy of Poverty in the Affluent Society
• Chapter 7. Fighting Poverty with Knowledge: The Office of Economic Opportunity and the Analytic Revolution in Government
• Chapter 8. Poverty's Culture Wars
• PART THREE
• Chapter 9. The Poverty Research Industry
• Chapter 10. Dependency, the "Underclass," and a New Welfare "Consensus": Poverty Knowledge for a Post-Liberal, Postindustrial Era
• Chapter 11. The End of Welfare and the Case for a New Poverty Knowledge
• Notes
• Index