Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History by Alice O'Connor

Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History

Alice O'Connor

373 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Progressive-era poverty warriors cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made dependency the issue and crafted incentives to get people o...

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