Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
Subtitle: a social history of human science, 1855-2005
By: Grace Davie, Queens College, City University of New York
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780521198752
Subjects: Poverty; Government policy; Measurement; Income maintenance programs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the poverty question in South Africa --; title: Before poverty measurement : conjuring worlds without want --; title: The human sciences in interwar South africa : William Macmillan, I. D. MacCrone, and the Carnegie Commission --; title: The minimum standards moment : Edward Batson and the poverty datum line (PDL) --; title: Rethinking governmentality : urban planning, rural betterment, and the apartheid state --; title: Agitation through quantification : white student activists in the era of black consciousness --; title: From people's power to corporate power : poverty research and the transition to democracy --; title: Baselines and battle lines: social surveying after apartheid.