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Poverty and Policy in American History is about people who needed help in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is about the ways in which the perception of poverty and other forms of dependence affected the development of public programs and the conduct of voluntary reform. It also about the ways in which people have written about welfare. The book contains three chapters and opens with a description of the life and death of a poor family in early twentieth-century Philadelphia show more based on case records. It attempts to show many of the themes in the lives of the poor through the close show lessTags
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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, Maine. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History, Sociology, Economics
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- 361.6 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Social problems and services Welfare State, Government Involvement
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- HV91 .K35 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. By region or country
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