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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... origins of public education. My work on Chicago school reform has been conducted in collaboration with two marvelous and creative colleagues, Michelle Fine and Elaine Simon, and my ideas on the subject derive in large part from our work ...
... origins and from the difficult and uncomfortable responses they require. Through the history of welfare (or relief, as it used to be called), urban poverty, and public education, this book explores attempts to improve poor people during ...
... origins and dimensions of a social issue can lead in very different policy directions. How then should one conceptualize the role of the historian in policy? Where can the historian be most useful? At a recent conference of the Social ...
... origins of my interest in restoring agency and dignity to ordinary historical actors and asks how poor people have survived poverty. It suggests answers by drawing on the lives of some of the poorest people in early-twentieth-century ...
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