LEADER 05060nam 22006375 450 001 996211815503316 005 20190708092533.0 010 $a1-282-08748-7 010 $a9786612087486 010 $a1-4008-2474-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824748 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756279 035 $a(EBL)445526 035 $a(OCoLC)362620558 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000225148 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11195312 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000225148 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10211565 035 $a(PQKB)11226950 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445526 035 $a(DE-B1597)479997 035 $a(OCoLC)979910655 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824748 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756279 100 $a20190708d2009 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPoverty Knowledge $eSocial Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History /$fAlice O'Connor 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ : $cPrinceton University Press, $d[2009] 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (387 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and Society in Modern America ;$v59 300 $aOriginally published: 2001. 311 $a0-691-10255-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPART ONE -- $tChapter 1. Origins: Poverty and Social Science in The Era of Progressive Reform -- $tChapter 2. Poverty Knowledge as Cultural Critique: The Great Depression -- $tChapter 3. From the Deep South to the Dark Ghetto: Poverty Knowledge, Racial Liberalism, and Cultural "Pathology" -- $tChapter 4. Giving Birth to a "Culture of Poverty": Poverty Knowledge in Postwar Behavioral Science, Culture, and Ideology -- $tChapter 5. Community Action -- $tPART TWO -- $tChapter 6. In the Midst of Plenty: The Political Economy of Poverty in the Affluent Society -- $tChapter 7. Fighting Poverty with Knowledge: The Office of Economic Opportunity and the Analytic Revolution in Government -- $tChapter 8. Poverty's Culture Wars -- $tPART THREE -- $tChapter 9. The Poverty Research Industry -- $tChapter 10. Dependency, the "Underclass," and a New Welfare "Consensus": Poverty Knowledge for a Post-Liberal, Postindustrial Era -- $tChapter 11. The End of Welfare and the Case for a New Poverty Knowledge -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aProgressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. Poverty Knowledge gives the first comprehensive historical account of the thinking behind these very different views of "the poverty problem," in a century-spanning inquiry into the politics, institutions, ideologies, and social science that shaped poverty research and policy. Alice O'Connor chronicles a transformation in the study of poverty, from a reform-minded inquiry into the political economy of industrial capitalism to a detached, highly technical analysis of the demographic and behavioral characteristics of the poor. Along the way, she uncovers the origins of several controversial concepts, including the "culture of poverty" and the "underclass." She shows how such notions emerged not only from trends within the social sciences, but from the central preoccupations of twentieth-century American liberalism: economic growth, the Cold War against communism, the changing fortunes of the welfare state, and the enduring racial divide. The book details important changes in the politics and organization as well as the substance of poverty knowledge. Tracing the genesis of a still-thriving poverty research industry from its roots in the War on Poverty, it demonstrates how research agendas were subsequently influenced by an emerging obsession with welfare reform. Over the course of the twentieth century, O'Connor shows, the study of poverty became more about altering individual behavior and less about addressing structural inequality. The consequences of this steady narrowing of focus came to the fore in the 1990s, when the nation's leading poverty experts helped to end "welfare as we know it." O'Connor shows just how far they had traveled from their field's original aims. 410 0$aPolitics and society in twentieth-century America. 606 $aPoverty$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPoor$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEconomic assistance, Domestic$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aPoverty$xHistory 615 0$aPoor$xHistory 615 0$aEconomic assistance, Domestic$xHistory 676 $a362.5/0973/0904 700 $aO'Connor$b Alice, $0929486 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996211815503316 996 $aPoverty Knowledge$92089390 997 $aUNISA