Title Poverty knowledge : social science, social policy, and the poor in twentieth-century U.S. history / Alice O'Connor.

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001]
	©2001

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HC110.P6 O33 2001	Available	---

Description	xi, 373 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Politics and society in twentieth-century America
	Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject	Poverty -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Poverty.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Poor -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Poor.
	Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Economic assistance, Domestic.
ISBN	0691009171 alkaline paper