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At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horri...
From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare
For the first time in over twenty-five years. the issue of poverty -- and our failure to deal with it -- is back at the top of the policy agenda and o...
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 ...
"...A powerful interpretation of the uses of history in educational reform and of the relations among democracy, education, and the capitalist state. ...
A Social History Of Welfare In America
With welfare reform a burning political issue, this special anniversary edition of the classic history of welfare in America has been revised and upda...
In this history, Katz explores the roots of our ambivalence toward welfare and the welfare state, revealing the patterns which have recurred from era ...
America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised
First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty...
Views from History
Examining the claim that an emerging underclass reveals an unprecedented crisis in American society, this collection of essays studies a complex set o...
The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History
"There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions be...
What America Was and What It Is Becoming
American society today is hardly recognizable from what it was a century ago. Integrated schools, an information economy, and independently successful...
The Illusion of Educational Change in America
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