Newman / Jacobs Who Cares?

Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3468-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Katherine S. Newman is the Malcolm Forbes, Class of 1941, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Her many books include The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America (with Victor Tan Chen) and No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City. Elisabeth S. Jacobs is a senior policy adviser to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newman, Katherine S.

Jacobs, Elisabeth S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction Devoted to the Common Good? 1

Chapter 1: Dissent and the New Deal 11

Chapter 2: Warring over the War on Poverty 56

Chapter 3: Economic Anxiety in the New Gilded Age 112

Chapter 4: Searching for "the Better Angels of Our Nature" 149

Notes 167

Bibliography 203

Index 211

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine S. Newman is the Malcolm Forbes, Class of 1941, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Her many books include The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America (with Victor Tan Chen) and No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City. Elisabeth S. Jacobs is a senior policy adviser to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress