Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as HistoryPrinceton University Press, 02/04/1997 - 191 من الصفحات "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, laziness, and other forms of bad behavior, they tried to use public policy and philanthropy to improve the character of poor people, rather than to attack the structural causes of their misery. Showing how this misdiagnosis has afflicted today's welfare and educational systems, Katz draws on his own experiences to introduce each of four topics--the welfare state, the "underclass" debate, urban school reform, and the strategies of survival used by the urban poor. Uniquely informed by his personal involvement, each chapter also illustrates the interpretive power of history by focusing on a strand of social policy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: social welfare from the poorhouse era through the New Deal, ideas about urban poverty from the undeserving poor to the "underclass," and the emergence of public education through the radical school reform movement now at work in Chicago. |
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... especially want to thank the committee's excellent staff—Martha Gephart, Robert Pearson, Raquel Ovryn Rivera, Alice O'Connor—for their courtesy and for the education they provided. A portion of chapter 3 was published in Teachers ...
... especially its president, Eric Wanner, is very great. A somewhat different version was published in Arnold R. Hirsch and Raymond A. Mohl, eds., Urban Policy in Twentieth-Cen- tury America (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press ...
... especially my wife, Edda, and youngest daughter, Sarah, on whom the preoccupation that accompanies writing takes the greatest toll. Improving Poor People Introduction THERE ARE places where history feels xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... especially ones relating to cities and their people. In response, I have tried to show how interpretations of the past grounded in analytic social history, freed of comforting myths, can reframe discussions of great public issues. In ...
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