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Michael B. Katz

The Undeserving Poor

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

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-997895-3
  • EAN: 9780199978953
  • Produktnummer: 16978809
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'185 KB
  • Auflage: 2. Auflage

Über den Autor


Michael B. Katz was the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. The author of Why Don't American Cities Burn?, The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State, and In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America, he was a past-president of the History of Education Society and the Urban History Association. The first edition of The Undeserving Poor was a semi-finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and a finalist for the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Book Award.

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