IMPROVING POOR PEOPLE ebook download Michael B. Katz

Improving Poor People

"There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and scholarship. But this major historian of urban poverty realizes that the pain in these cities has its origins in the American past. To understand contemporary poverty, he looks particularly at an old attitude: because many nineteenth-century reformers traced extreme poverty to drink, laziness, and other forms of bad behavior, they tried to use public policy and philanthropy to improve the character of poor people, rather than to attack the structural causes of their misery. Showing how this misdiagnosis has afflicted today's welfare and educational systems, Katz draws on his own experiences to introduce each of four topics--the welfare state, the "underclass" debate, urban school reform, and the strategies of survival used by the urban poor.

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Title of ebook: Improving Poor People
ISBN: 9781400821709
parent-ISBN: 9780691029948
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 02-2001
Released online for download: 02-15-2001
Author of eBook: Katz, Michael B.

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