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Poverty knowledge : social science, social policy, and the poor in twentieth-century U.S. history
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Poverty knowledge : social science, social policy, and the poor in twentieth-century U.S. history

Author: Alice O'Connor
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Series: Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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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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