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Poverty knowledge : social science, social policy, and the poor in twentieth-century U.S. history /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: O'Connor, Alice, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Series:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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