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

Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History
ISBN-10
0691102554
ISBN-13
9780691102559
Category
History
Pages
373
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Author
Alice O'Connor

Description

Alice O'Connor here chronicles the transformation in the study of poverty from a reform-minded inquiry into the political economy of industrial capitalism to the detached, highly technical 1990s analysis of the demographic and behavioural characteristics of the poor. "Poverty Knowledge" is a comprehensive historical account of the thinking behind these very different views of "the poverty problem". It is a century-spanning inquiry into the politics, institutions, ideologies, and social science that shaped poverty research and policy.

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