Katz Improving Poor People

The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2170-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 191 Seiten

Michael B. Katz is Stanley I. Sheerr Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his many works are In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America and The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare. He is the editor of The 'Underclass' Debate: Views from History (Princeton).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Katz, Michael B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix

INTRODUCTION 3

CHAPTER ONE. The Welfare State 19

CHAPTER TWO. The "Underclass" 60

CHAPTER THREE. Urban Schools 99

CHAPTER FOUR. Surviving Poverty 144

INDEX 173

Über Autor(innen)

Michael B. Katz is Stanley I. Sheerr Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his many works are In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America and The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare. He is the editor of The "Underclass" Debate: Views from History (Princeton).