Michael B. Katz (1939–2014)
Autor/a de In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America
Sobre l'autor
Michael B. Katz is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania & the author of ten books, including "The Undeserving Poor" & "In the Shadow of the Poorhouse". A Fellow of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies & the Russell Sage Foundation, he lives in Philadelphia & Oquossoc, mostra'n més Maine. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Michael B. Katz
The Undeserving Poor: America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised (2013) 39 exemplars
The Irony of Early School Reform: Educational Innovation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts (1968) 24 exemplars
Class, Bureaucracy, and Schools: The Illusion of Educational Change in America (Praeger University Series) (1974) 20 exemplars
Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History (1995) 17 exemplars
The people of Hamilton, Canada West : family and class in a mid-nineteenth-century city (1975) 12 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Katz, Michael Barry
- Data de naixement
- 1939-04-13
- Data de defunció
- 2014-08-23
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Wilmington, Delaware, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Oquossoc, Maine, USA (summer) - Educació
- Harvard University (BA|1961, MA|1962, PhD|1966)
- Professions
- historian
social theorist
Professor of History - Organitzacions
- University of Toronto
University of Pennsylvania - Premis i honors
- Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 21
- Membres
- 520
- Popularitat
- #47,760
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 3
- ISBN
- 54
The author explains how from the beginning there have been delineations between the "deserving" poor, like widows, the disabled or ill, or those who have undergone unfortunate circumstances in some other way, and the "undeserving" poor - those presumed to be poor because of some other reason, generally assumed to be their own indolence.
He explores the sociology of poverty, but primarily the public policy end of it - going in great detail about the policy decisions related to the War on Poverty and the conservative backlash to it, the emergence of the concept of the "underclass" and the end of that idea, and most recently, the appeal to a more market ideology in relation to handling poverty. Major philosophers and works are explored as well.
The author rightly speaks of the challenge behind the challenge: to understand what poverty is, where it comes from, and then to seek the best way forward in addressing it. Conservatives tend to focus on individual persons, as if poverty is generally the result of individual failure; liberals make much of places, as if poverty is a result of a toxic environment. He also identifies resources (poverty as lack of money and other assets), political economy (poverty as the unfortunate result of those who "lose" at capitalism), power (poverty as result of political powerlessness), and markets (poverty as lack of a viable market, or not using the market and human potential effectively). And there is also the pessimism - poverty as an ever-present problem, and thus one without solution.
More about the history of public policy than might be imagined, but still a good introduction to the state of poverty research and public policy, why it has gone the way it has, the stigmas and prejudices inherent throughout, and the reasons why those with power in America would rather not actually deal with the real issues behind poverty.… (més)