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050 00 $aHC110.P6$bO33 2001
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100 1 $aO'Connor, Alice,$d1958-
245 10 $aPoverty knowledge :$bsocial science, social policy, and the poor in twentieth-century U.S. history /$cAlice O'Connor.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2001.
300 $axi, 373 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aPolitics and society in twentieth-century America
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOrigins: 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.
650 0 $aPoverty$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPoor$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aEconomic assistance, Domestic$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
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