Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History (Politics and Society in Modern America)

O'Connor, Alice

ISBN 10: 0691009171 / ISBN 13: 9780691009179

Edité par Princeton University Press, 2001

N° de réf. du vendeur 0691009171-4-35158986

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.

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 bibliographiques

Titre : Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social ...
Éditeur : Princeton University Press
Date d'édition : 2001
Reliure : hardcover
Etat : Fair