Poverty Knowledge
Subtitle: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: August 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780691102559
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; History of ideas, intellectual history; Poverty; Social History; 20th century; United States - 20th Century; Public Policy - Social Policy; History; Sociology; History: American; USA; American History; History / United States / 20th Century
First sentence: AT THE END of the nineteenth century social investigators in several of the world's most advanced industrial societies set out to bring new scientific understanding to the problem of poverty.