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A People's History of Poverty in America
Tens of millions of Americans currently live in poverty, more and more of them in extreme poverty. But the words we use to describe them tend to obscure rather than illuminate the human lives and real-life stories behind the statistics. A “sympathetic social history that allows poor people, past and present, to tell their own remarkably similar stories” (Booklist), A People's History of Poverty in America movingly brings to life poor people's everyday battles for dignity and respect in the face of the judgment, control, and disdain that are all too often the price they must pay for charity and government aid. Through prodigious research, Stephen Pimpare has unearthed poignant and often surprising testimonies and accounts that range from the early days of the United States to the complex social and economic terrain of the present. A work of sweeping analysis, A People's History of Poverty in America reminds us that poverty is not in itself a moral failure, though our failure to understand it may well be.
Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens
"Explores how American movies have portrayed poor and homeless people from the silent era to today"--Front jacket flap.
The New Victorians
Parallels between anti-welfare propagandists of the nineteenth century and well-funded policy research organizations of today are uncovered, revealing lessons that emphasize the needed support for state defense of the poor.
Politics for Social Workers
This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work--and what they can do to help their clients and their communities. It offers informed, practical grounding in the mechanics of policy making and the tools that activists and outsiders can use to take on an entrenched system.
Suspect Citizens
The costs of racially disparate patterns of police behavior are high, but the crime fighting benefits are low.
Class Attitudes in America
Sympathy for the poor and resentment of the rich are widespread, and they influence Americans' political preferences.
Poor Representation
The poor are grossly underrepresented in Congress both overall and by individual legislators, even those who represent high-poverty districts.
Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens
Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down & Out on the Silver Screen explores how American movies have portrayed poor and homeless people from the silent era to today. It provides a novel kind of guide to social policy, exploring how ideas about poor and homeless people have been reflected in popular culture and evaluating those images against the historical and contemporary reality. Richly illustrated and examining nearly 300 American-made films released between 1902 and 2015, Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens finds and describes representations of poor and homeless people and the places they have inhabited throughout the century-long history of U.S. cinema. It moves beyond the merely des...
Who Cleans the Park?
Introduction -- The workers -- The work -- The workplace -- Public-private partnerships -- Institutional boundaries, accountability, and the integral state -- The politics of free labor: visibility and invisibility -- Valuing maintenance, valuing workers
Quixote's Ghost
An analysis of the ideological fight for control of American social welfare policy, this book demonstrates how the Right pirated the pragmatism championed by the Left since the New Deal and what that means for the future of social policy. It illustrates how both the Right and the Left have shortchanged American social policy.
