"This collection of 17 essays examines poverty and its causes from
a variety of angles. The common thread is a concern for the
structural causes of poverty; the book therefore offers a welcome
alternative to the dominant ideological views that portray poverty
as a result of individuals' decisions, attributes and/or moral
failings...The authors show the connections between capitalism,
slavery and the development of state policies and ideologies that
maintained the oppressed and exploited status of African Americans
after the Civil War and constituted the basis for the emergence of
white identity and privilege to the detriment of working class
identities based on a recognition of the common plight of workers,
regardless of skin color...this is an outstanding collection,
useful for courses in social stratification, the sociology of work,
and race and ethnic relations."
"--Science and Society"
Since the end of the Second World War, poverty in the United
States has been a persistent focus of social anxiety, public
debate, and federal policy. This volume argues convincingly that we
will not be able to reduce or eliminate poverty until we take the
political factors that contribute to its continuation into
account.
Ideal for course use, A New Introduction to Poverty opens with a
historical overview of the major intellectual and political debates
surrounding poverty in the United States. Several factors have
received inadequate attention: the impact of poverty on women; the
synergy of racism and poverty; race and gender stratification of
the workplace; and, crucially, the ways in which the powerful use
their resources to maintain the economic status quo.
Contributors include MimiAbramovitz, Peter Alcock, Bonnie
Thornton Dill, Raymond Franklin, Herman George Jr., Michael B.
Katz, Marlene Kim, Rebecca Morales, Sandra Patton, Valerie Polakow,
Jackie Pope, Jill Quadagno, David C. Ranney, Barbara Ransby, Bette
Woody, and Maxine Baca Zinn.
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