Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History - Couverture rigide

O'Connor, Alice

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691009171 ISBN 13 : 9780691009179

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Alice O'Connor here chronicles the transformation in the study of poverty from a reform-minded inquiry into the political economy of industrial capitalism to the detached, highly technical 1990s analysis of the demographic and behavioural characteristics of the poor. "Poverty Knowledge" is a comprehensive historical account of the thinking behind these very different views of "the poverty problem". It is a century-spanning inquiry into the politics, institutions, ideologies, and social science that shaped poverty research and policy.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alice O'Connor was formerly the Assistant Director of the Project on Social Welfare and the American Future at the Ford Foundation, the Director for the Programs on Persistent Urban Poverty and International Migration at the Social Science Research Council, a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. She is currently Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691009171
• ISBN 13: 9780691009179
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 392
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