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Article: Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History.
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- August 1, 1996
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In this book, Michael Katz explores the boundary between advocacy and conventional scholarly analysis, combining historical interpretation and his own personal experience into a compelling commentary on past and present issues in social welfare in the United States. His familiarity with the terrain extends from a stint as a director of a playschool for children on the margins of poverty in 1962, to a career devoted to Canadian and American social history, and recent work as a consultant to research and advisory committees on poverty and social welfare. His aim is highly ambitious -- nothing less than to bring a historical perspective to the question of why American public ...