Isbn: 9780691029948 - improving poor people: the welfare state, the "underclass," and urban schools as history (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. "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 19th-century reformers traced extreme poverty to drink, laziness, and other forms of bad behaviour, 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 the welfare state, the "underclass" debate, urban school reform, and the strategies of survival used by the urban poor. Each chapter also illustrates the interpretative power of history by focusing on a strand of social policy in the 19th and 20th 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.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. "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 19th-century reformers traced extreme poverty to drink, laziness, and other forms of bad behaviour, 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 the welfare state, the "underclass" debate, urban school reform, and the strategies of survival used by the urban poor. Each chapter also illustrates the interpretative power of history by focusing on a strand of social policy in the 19th and 20th 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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Very good cloth copy in very good dustjacket. xi, 179 pages.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0691029946. …

Zustand: very good. Princeton ; Chichester : Princeton University Press, c1995. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. xi, 179p ; 25cm. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780691029948. Keywords : , *.

Zustand: Gut. XI; 179 Seiten; 24 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Leinenband mit OUmschl. Gutes Ex.; Umschlag etwas berieben; innen wenige Bleistift-Anstreichungen. - Englisch. - Michael B. Katz (19392014), US-amerikanischer Sozialwissenschaftler (wiki-Kurzeintrag) // " . Michael Katz has devoted his career to brilliant historical analysis of urban schooling, social welfare and poverty. Now in Improving Poor People he gives us an intensely personal book about how his own life experiences have informed his intellectual work, and how historical renderings of these crucial issues of our time have helped shape social policy. While Katz has always displayed a deep commitment to social action, Improving Poor People demonstrates with passion and conviction how greater understanding of the way American society historically has educated its children, provided social welfare to its needy, and treated its poor can lead to the building of a more humane and democratic America. This book is a powerful dialogue between past and present that speaks eloquently to the future." - Lizabeth Cohen, New York University . " (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Acknowledgments ------- INTRODUCTION ------- CHAPTER ONE. The Welfare State ------- CHAPTER TWO. The "Underclass" ------- CHAPTER THREE. Urban Schools ------- CHAPTER FOUR. Surviving Poverty ------- Index. ISBN 0691029946 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…