The undeserving poor: America's enduring confrontation with poverty
"Katz highlights how throughout American history, the poor have been regarded as undeserving: people who do not deserve sympathy because they brought their poverty on themselves, either through laziness and immorality, or because they are culturally or mentally deficient. This long-dominant view sees poverty as a personal failure, serving to justify America's mean-spirited treatment of the poor. Katz reminds us, however, that there are other explanations of poverty besides personal failure. Pov…
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- Full title :The undeserving poor : America's enduring confrontation with poverty/ by Michael B. Katz.
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"Katz highlights how throughout American history, the poor have been regarded as undeserving: people who do not deserve sympathy because they brought their poverty on themselves, either through laziness and immorality, or because they are culturally or mentally deficient. This long-dominant view sees poverty as a personal failure, serving to justify America's mean-spirited treatment of the poor. Katz reminds us, however, that there are other explanations of poverty besides personal failure. Poverty has been written about as a problem of place, of resources, of political economy, of power, and of market failure. Katz looks at each idea in turn, showing how they suggest more effective approaches to our struggle against poverty."--Publisher'swebsite.
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- Publication Date:2013.
- Edition:Second edition, fully updated and revised
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 ressource en ligne (xiii, 353 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0199978786, 1299908020, 9780199978786, 9781299908024
- oclc:on1239730533
- LC Classification:HC110.P6
- Dewey Decimal:362.5/80973
Table of Contents
The undeserving poor: morals, culture and biology -- Poverty and the politics of liberation -- Intellectual foundations of the war on poverty and great society -- Interpretations of poverty in the conservative ascendance -- The rise and fall of the "underclass" -- Epilogue : what kind of a problem ispoverty?
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