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Improving Poor People
Michael B. Katz
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
"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.
Why have American governments proved unable to redesign a welfare system that will satisfy anyone? Why has public policy proved unable to eradicate poverty and prevent the deterioration of major cities? What strategies have helped poor people survive the poverty endemic to urban history? How did urban schools become unresponsive bureaucracies that fail to educate most of their students? Are there fresh, constructive ways to think about welfare, poverty, and public education? Throughout the book Katz shows how interpretations of the past, grounded in analytic history, can free us of comforting myths and help us to reframe discussions of these great public issues.
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Poor relief, African Americans, Capitalism, Margaret Weir, Underclass, Culture of poverty, Lumpenproletariat, Racial segregation, Abolitionism, Seth Low, Urban renewal, Racism, Public expenditure, Basic Books, Redlining, Welfare, Poverty, Ira Katznelson, Education reform, Social insurance, Progressive education, Demography, The Great Transformation (book), Public sphere, Oscar Lewis, Of Education, Medicaid, Legislation, Civilian Conservation Corps, Political machine, Welfare state, Charity Organization Society, Cultural deprivation, Politician, Social issue, Ted Sizer, Civil Works Administration, Education, Politics, Activism, ADAPT, Milliken v. Bradley, Social history, Social science, Works Progress Administration, Income, Economics, Savage Inequalities, School of education, Affirmative action, Welfare reform, Institution, Orphanage, Robert D. Putnam, Puritans, Settlement movement, War on Poverty, Federal Housing Administration, Workhouse, Charles Loring Brace, General Assistance, Social movement, Employment, Outdoor relief, Unemployment, His Family, Poorhouse, Pension, War pension, Losing Ground (book)