Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the Underclass, and Urban Schools as History

by Michael B. Katz

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"There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and scholarship. But this major historian of urban poverty realizes that the pain in these cities has its origins in the American past. To understand contemporary poverty, he looks particularly at an old attitude: because many nineteenth-century reformers traced extreme poverty to drink,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691029946

ISBN13:9780691029948

Release Date:March 1995

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 7.8" x 10.0"

Related Subjects

Education Education Theory Historical Study & Educational Resources History History & Theory Humanities Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Poverty

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