Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History

by Alice O'Connor

Book Overview

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 gives the first comprehensive historical account of the thinking behind these very different views of "the poverty problem," in a century-spanning inquiry into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691102554
• ISBN13: 9780691102559
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Keen Eye!

Great overview and critical history of social science research. Makes deep cuts to the pristine claims of discipline. HIGHLY RECOMMEND for Graduate students in the Social Sciences.