Undeserving Poor America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised

Name: Undeserving Poor America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised
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ISBN: 9780199933952

ISBN-10: 0199933952

ISBN-13: 9780199933952

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Michael B. Katz

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First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz's new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will force all concerned Americans to reconsider the foundations of our policies toward the poor, especially in the wake of the Great Recession that began in 2008.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…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/31/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Michael B. Katz is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania & the author of ten books, including "The Undeserving Poor" & "In the Shadow of the Poorhouse". A Fellow of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies & the Russell Sage Foundation, he lives in Philadelphia & Oquossoc, Maine.



Preface



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 Is Poverty?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index