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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: O'Connor, Alice, 1958- Poverty knowledge. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001 (DLC) 00034682 (OCoLC)49200548 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alice O'Connor |
| ISBN: | 1400814502 9781400814503 |
| OCLC Number: | 52137360 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 373 p.) |
| Contents: | Origins: poverty and social science in the era of progressive reform -- Poverty knowledge as cultural critique: the Great Depression -- From the Deep South to the dark ghetto: poverty knowledge, racial liberalism, and cultural "pathology" -- Giving birth to a "culture of poverty": poverty knowledge in postwar behavioral science, culture, and ideology -- Community action -- In the midst of plenty: the political economy of poverty in the affluent society -- Fighting poverty with knowledge: the Office of Economic Opportunity and the analytic revolution in government -- Poverty's culture wars -- The poverty research industry -- Dependency, the "underclass," and a new welfare "consensus": poverty knowledge for a post-liberal, postindustrial era -- The end of welfare and the case for a new poverty knowledge. |
| Series Title: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America. |
| Responsibility: | Alice O'Connor. |
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