Improving Poor People Softcover - 1997
by Katz, Michael B
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- Paperback
Author Michael Katz traces contemporary poverty in the United States back to the 19th-century attitude that poverty was linked to certain forms of bad behavior. Showing how this misdiagnosis has afflicted today's welfare and educational systems, Katz explores four topicsthe welfare state, the "underclass" debate, urban school reform, and what strategies the urban poor apply to survive.
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- Title Improving Poor People
- Author Katz, Michael B
- Binding Softcover
- Edition Edition Unstated
- Condition Used - Very Good Condition
- Pages 191
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press , Princeton, NJ.
- Date 1997
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1561008566
- ISBN 9780691016054 / 0691016054
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 9.09 x 6.04 x 0.47 in (23.09 x 15.34 x 1.19 cm)
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94031111
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.509
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From the rear cover
"Michael Katz is perhaps the premier historian of American social welfare. And in the case of his work, it really is true that an understanding of the past illuminates the present, and especially the present debacle over welfare reform."--Frances Fox Piven
"Michael Katz is not just the leading historian of urban poverty and social policy in the United States; he is of that rare breed of scholars who believes in changing the world he interprets. And as he demonstrates in these powerful, moving essays on welfare reform, the 'underclass' debate, and urban education, interpreting the past is not only essential for creating a different future but often just as difficult. By consistently putting people at the center of the story--their actions, their mistakes, their conflicts, their visions--Katz reminds us why grand theories or single-issue panaceas cannot stand in for careful historical research. His deeply personal account of his struggle to straddle the worlds of academics and activism adds a rich dimension to an already razor-sharp and hardnosed analysis. Anyone truly concerned about the plight of America's inner cities must read this book."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class
