Poverty in common : the politics of community action during the American century /

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This work looks at inter-related post WWII case studies to analyze the ways in which different groups, mostly governmental agencies and emerging activist organizations, invoked the idea of ""community"" in anti-poverty initiatives during the late 1950s and 1960s

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goldstein, Alyosha
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Series:Online access with subscription: Duke University Press.
Subjects:
Community Action Program (U.S.) > History.
Community Action Program (U.S.)
Since 1900
Economic assistance, Domestic > United States > History > 20th century.
Community development > United States > History > 20th century.
Social service > United States > History > 20th century.
Public welfare > United States > History > 20th century.
Poverty > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Pauvreté > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Community development.
Economic assistance, Domestic.
Economic history.
Poverty > Government policy.
Public welfare.
Social service.
Välfärdspolitik > Förenta staterna.
United States > Economic conditions > 1945-
États-Unis > Conditions économiques > 1945-
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Now, we're our own government?
  • Freedom between: inequality and the democracy of felt needs
  • On the internal border: colonial difference and the locations of underdevelopment
  • The civics and civilities of poverty: participation, policing, and the poor peoples campaign
  • The surplus of inclusion: poverty, pluralism, and the politics of community
  • Thresholds of opposition: liberty, liberation, and the horizon of incrimination
  • Conclusion : peculiar freedom: community and poverty, from new Federalism to Neoliberalism.

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