The undeserving poor : America's enduring confrontation with poverty /

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Author / Creator:	Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014.
Edition:	Second edition, fully updated and revised.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 353 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Poor -- United States. Poverty -- United States. Discrimination -- United States. Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States. Discrimination. Economic assistance, Domestic. Poor. Poverty. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12481419

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ISBN:	9780199978786 0199978786 9781299908024 1299908020 9780199933952 0199933952
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Katz highlights how throughout American history, the poor have been regarded as undeserving: people who do not deserve sympathy because they brought their poverty on themselves, either through laziness and immorality, or because they are culturally or mentally deficient. This long-dominant view sees poverty as a personal failure, serving to justify America's mean-spirited treatment of the poor. Katz reminds us, however, that there are other explanations of poverty besides personal failure. Poverty has been written about as a problem of place, of resources, of political economy, of power, and of market failure. Katz looks at each idea in turn, showing how they suggest more effective approaches to our struggle against poverty."--Publisher's website.
Other form:	Print version: Katz, Michael B., 1939- Undeserving poor. Second edition 9780199933952

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