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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The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History Michael B. Katz. The idea for this book occurred to me in the serenity of Clioquossia in Oquossoc, Maine, where I did most of the work of revising the essays that compose ...
The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History Michael B. Katz. Introduction. THERE ARE places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them. Those historians engaged with the problems of ...
The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History Michael B. Katz. fortable with radical rupture, discontinuity, abrupt transformation. Nonetheless, as the history of recent decades illustrates, these, too, form important ...
The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History Michael B. Katz. Clearly, though, history has meaning for women and men on the front line of social action. Nothing has pleased me more throughout nearly three decades of ...
The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History Michael B. Katz. consistency on the past. Social institutions have served multiple, often contradictory purposes; coalitions with widely divergent interests and goals have ...