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Author O'Connor, Alice, 1958-

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]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.509 O18P    Check Shelf
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 Unemployment.
Class consciousness.
Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Welfare recipients.
Local Subject Poor people -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Subject Poverty -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Poor -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0691009171 alkaline paper
9780691009179 alkaline paper
0691102554
9780691102559
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