num_pages: 320
description: In this first history of the 20th-century attitudes toward the poor, Patterson tells how we have viewed poverty and what our welfare reformers have tried to do about it.
language: English
title: America's Struggle Against Poverty, 1900-1985
titlecomplete: America's Struggle Against Poverty, 1900-1985
genres: Politics, Poverty, History, Social Work
ratings_count: 62
publisher: Harvard Univ Pr