The undeserving poor : America's enduring confrontation with poverty /

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"Katz highlights how throughout American history, the poor have been regarded as undeserving: people who do not deserve sympathy because they brought their poverty on themselves, either through laziness and immorality, or because they are culturally or mentally deficient. This long-dominant vie...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:Second edition, fully updated and revised.
Subjects:
Poor > United States.
Poverty > United States.
Discrimination > United States.
Economic assistance, Domestic > United States.
Pauvreté > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Discrimination
Economic assistance, Domestic
Poor
Poverty
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The undeserving poor : morals, culture and biology
  • Poverty and the politics of liberation
  • Intellectual foundations of the war on poverty and great society
  • Interpretations of poverty in the conservative ascendance
  • The rise and fall of the "underclass"
  • Epilogue : what kind of a problem is poverty?

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