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A People's History of Poverty in America

Author : Stephen Pimpare
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595586962
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book A People's History of Poverty in America written by Stephen Pimpare and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A People's History of Poverty in America, political scientist Stephen Pimpare brings the human lives and real-life stories of those who struggle with poverty in America to the foreground, vividly describing life as poor and welfare-reliant Americans experience it, from the big city to the rural countryside. Prodigiously researched, A People's History of Poverty in America unearths rich, poignant, and often surprising testimonies—both heart-wrenching and humorous—that range from the early days of the United States to the present day. Pimpare shows us how the poor have found food, secured shelter, and created community, and, most important, he illuminates their 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. In telling these hidden stories, Pimpare argues eloquently for a fundamental rethinking of poverty, one that includes both a more nuanced understanding of the history of the American welfare state, and a meaningful—and truly accurate—new definition of the poverty line. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as an “illuminating history of America's poor” and a “useful counter against those who blame the poor for their bad luck,” A People's History of Poverty in America reminds us that poverty is not in itself a moral failure, but our failure to understand it may well be.

After Bourdieu

Author : David L. Swartz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402025890
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book After Bourdieu written by David L. Swartz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: critical evaluations of his work, notably papers by Rodney Benson, 4 Rogers Brubaker, Nick Crossley, and John Myles. Indeed, it is the 1985 article by Rogers Brubaker that can truly be said to have served as one of the best introductions to Bourdieu’s thought for the American social scienti?c public. It is for this reason that we include it in the present collection. Intellectual origins & orientations We begin by providing an overview of Bourdieu’s life as a scholar and a public intellectual. The numerous obituaries and memorial tributes that have appeared following Bourdieu’s untimely death have revealed something of his life and career, but few have stressed the intersection of his social origins, career trajectory, and public intellectual life with the changing political and social context of France. This is precisely what David Swartz’s “In memoriam” attempts to accomplish. In it he emphasizes the coincidence of Bourdieu’s young and later adulthood with the period of decolonization, the May 1968 French university crisis, the opening up of France to privatization of many domains previously entrusted to the state (l’état providence), and, most threatening to post-World War II reforms, the emergence of globalization as the hegemonic structure of the 21st century. An orienting theme throughout Bourdieu’s work warns against the partial and fractured views of social reality generated by the fundamental subject/object dichotomy that has plagued social science from its very beginning.

The "Underclass" Debate

Author : Michael B. Katz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691006284
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The "Underclass" Debate written by Michael B. Katz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the claim that an emerging underclass reveals an unprecedented crisis in American society, this collection of essays studies a complex set of processes that has been at work for a long period, degrading inner cities and the nation as a whole.

The Unemployed People's Movement

Author : James J. Lorence
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820338761
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Unemployed People's Movement written by James J. Lorence and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Georgia during the Great Depression, jobless workers united with the urban poor, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers. In a collective effort that cut across race and class boundaries, they confronted an unresponsive political and social system and helped shape government policies. James J. Lorence adds significantly to our understanding of this movement, which took place far from the northeastern and midwestern sites we commonly associate with Depression-era labor struggles. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly accessible records of the Communist Party of the United States, Lorence details interactions between various institutional and grassroots players, including organized labor, the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, liberal activists, and officials at every level of government. He shows, for example, how the Communist Party played a more central role than previously understood in the organization of the unemployed and the advancement of labor and working-class interests in Georgia. Communists gained respect among the jobless, especially African Americans, for their willingness to challenge officials, help negotiate the welfare bureaucracy, and gain access to New Deal social programs. Lorence enhances our understanding of the struggles of the poor and unemployed in a Depression-era southern state. At the same time, we are reminded of their movement's lasting legacy: the shift in popular consciousness that took place as Georgians, "influenced by a new sense of entitlement fostered by the unemployed organizations," began to conceive of new, more-equal relations with the state.

Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere

Author : Vincent H. Gaddis
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761832348
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere written by Vincent H. Gaddis and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere examines the fulfillment of Hoover's ideas in the area of unemployment between 1919 and 1933. The economic system Herbert Hoover envisioned, one based on cooperation and individual initiative with limited government, and the language he used to promote this system defined New Era discourse. His American Individualism, printed in 1923, served as the political philosophy of the administrations of the 1920s. In his discourse from 1919-1921, Hoover expanded the criteria- the conceptual definitions of virtue and liberty. The book includes a foreword by Mary O. Furner.

"We are All Leaders"

Author : Staughton Lynd
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065477
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book "We are All Leaders" written by Staughton Lynd and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We Are All Leaders" describes a kind of union qualitatively different from the bureaucratic business unions that make up the AFL-CIO today. From African American nutpickers in St. Louis, chemical and rubber workers in Akron, textile workers in the South, and bootleg miners in Pennsylvania to tenant farmers in the Mississippi Delta, packinghouse and garment workers in Minnesota, seamen in San Francisco, and labor party campaigns throughout the country, workers in the 1930s were experimenting with community-based unionism. Contributors to this volume draw on interviews with participants in the events described, first-person narratives, trade union documents, and other primary sources to tell what workers of the 1930s did. The alternative unionism of the 1930s was democratic, deeply rooted in mutual aid among workers in different crafts and work sites, and politically independent. The key to it was a value system based on egalitarianism. The cry, "We are all leaders " resonated among rank-and-file activists. Their struggle, often ignored by historians, has much to teach us today about union organizing. CONTRIBUTORS: Rosemary Feurer, Peter Rachleff, Janet Irons, Mark D. Naison, Eric Leif Davin, Elizabeth Faue, Michael Kozura, John Borsos, Stan Weir A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilenz

Social Solutions to Poverty

Author : Scott Myers-Lipton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317251849
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Social Solutions to Poverty written by Scott Myers-Lipton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices of famous and lesser known figures in America's quest to reduce poverty are collected for the first time in this comprehensive historical anthology. The book traces the most important ideas and contributions of citizens, activists, labour leaders, scholars, politicians, and governmental agencies to ensure American citizens the basics of food, housing, employment, education, and health care. The book follows the idea of poverty reduction from Thomas Paine's agrarian justice to Josiah Quincy's proposal for the construction of poorhouses; from the Freedmen's Bureau to Sitting Bull's demand for money and supplies; from Coxey's army of the unemployed to Jane Addams's Hull House; from the Civil Works Administration to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s call for an Economic Bill of Rights; and from William Julius Wilson's universal programme of reform to George W. Bush's armies of compassion.

Organizing the Unemployed

Author : James J. Lorence
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791429877
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Organizing the Unemployed written by James J. Lorence and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the organization of the unemployed during the Great Depression and demonstrates the linkage between their mobilization and automobile-industry organization.

CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the United States

Author : Susan Burgess
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1506354718
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the United States written by Susan Burgess and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the United States is a unique work which provides an overview of radical U.S. political movements on both the left and the right sides of the ideological spectrum. It focuses on analyzing the origins and trajectory of the various movements, and the impact that movement ideas and activities have had on mainstream American politics. This guide is organized thematically, with each chapter focusing on a prominent arena of radical activism in the United States. These chapters will: Trace the chronological development of these extreme leftist and rightist movements throughout U.S. history Include a discussion of central individuals, organizations, and events, as well as their impact on popular opinion, political discourse, and public policy Include sidebar features to provide additional contextual information to facilitate increased understanding of the topic Seeking to provide an accessible, balanced, and well-documented discussion of topics often overlooked in political science, this book includes an introduction to anarchism, communism, and socialism as well as the Chicano movement, civilian border patrols, Black power, the Ku Klux Klan, ACT-UP, the militia movement, Occupy Wall Street, farmers’ rebellions, Earth First!, the Animal Environmental Liberation Front, and many others.

There Is Power in a Union

Author : Philip Dray
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307389766
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book There Is Power in a Union written by Philip Dray and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience. In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in our social, political, economic, and cultural evolution. His epic, character-driven narrative not only restores to our collective memory the indelible story of American labor, it also demonstrates the importance of the fight for fairness and economic democracy, and why that effort remains so urgent today.

Encyclopedia of American Social Movements

Author : Immanuel Ness
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317471881
Total Pages : 2832 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Social Movements written by Immanuel Ness and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 2832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume set examines every social movement in American history - from the great struggles for abolition, civil rights, and women's equality to the more specific quests for prohibition, consumer safety, unemployment insurance, and global justice.

Trotskyism in the United States

Author : Paul Le Blanc
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608467538
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Trotskyism in the United States written by Paul Le Blanc and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new edition of this definitive work on the history of the revolutionary socialist current in the United States that came to be identified as "American Trotskyism," Paul Le Blanc offers fresh reflections on this history for scholars and activists in the twenty-first century. Includes a preface written especially for the new edition of this distinctive work. Paul Le Blanc is a professor of History at La Roche College and author of Choice Award–winning book A Freedom Budget for All Americans.

The Hungry Years

Author : T. H. Watkins
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805065060
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Hungry Years written by T. H. Watkins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws from oral histories, memoirs, local newspaper reports, and scholarly texts to tell the story of America's Great Depression in the words of people who lived through it.

The Southern Key

Author : Michael Goldfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190079339
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Southern Key written by Michael Goldfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael Goldfield argues, lies in the contests between labor and capital in the American South during the 1930s and 1940s. Labor agitation and unionization efforts in the South in the New Deal era were extensive and bitterly fought, and ranged across all of the major industries of the region. In The Southern Key, Goldfield charts the rise of labor activism in each and then examines how and why labor organizers struggled so mightily in the region. Drawing from meticulous and unprecedented archival material and detailed data on four core industries-textiles, timber, coal mining, and steel-he argues that much of what is important in American politics and society today was largely shaped by the successes and failures of the labor movements of the 1930s and 1940s. Most notably, Goldfield shows how the broad-based failure to organize the South during this period made it what it is today. He contends that this early defeat for labor unions not only contributed to the exploitation of race and right-wing demagoguery in the South, but has also led to a decline in unionization, growing economic inequality, and an inability to confront and dismantle white supremacy throughout the US. A sweeping account of Southern political economy in the New Deal era, The Southern Key challenges the established historiography to tell a tale of race, radicalism, and betrayal that will reshape our understanding of why America developed so differently from other advanced industrial nations over the course of the last century.

Through Different Eyes

Author : J. Barbara Alvord
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462813372
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Through Different Eyes written by J. Barbara Alvord and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-03-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a meagerly-educated peasant girl is chosen in 1903 to leave her family and accompany her illiterate godfather from Europe to the Midlands of America? Young Anna Barbara Mrkvicka left the dirt floor of her over-crowded one room home to enter an unknown world and overwhelming challenges at every turn. Through Different Eyes describes the back-breaking peasant life of that era. Anna worked in the fields at six years of age. It travels with the young peasant in steerage on a daunting ocean voyage, and it reveals the frustrating immigrant experience of Ellis Island. It explores the sounds and smells of sleeping for six weeks on steamy tenement rooftops of New York Citys dangerous Lower East Side, sometimes with a knife handy for protection. The journey includes a lengthy train ride into the Heartland of the United States, reveals the anxiety of arriving to work with strangers on an isolated farmstead in early Iowa. With no way to learn the English language of America, for three hard years the frightened girl was unable to escape an abusive step-aunt. She was neither paid for her exhausting farm work nor allowed enough to eat; she was beaten. Yet Anna not only miraculously survived her ordeals, her grit and determination at last enabled her to bring all seven members of her family and a foster brother to Iowa in 1909. It was just in time; World War I was threatening to engulf Europe. After years of research, this creative biography honors all unsung immigrants like young Anna. It pays homage to the millions of men and women who desperately struggled to transplant their family lives to the freedom of Americatheir precious gift to those of us so privileged to be citizens of this great land.

Sticking to the Union

Author : S. Polishuk
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403973555
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Sticking to the Union written by S. Polishuk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sticking to the Union relates the vibrant life of Julia Ruuttila (1907-1991), a political radical and labor journalist in the Pacific Northwest. Ruuttila's life of activism provides a much-needed woman's voice in the history of labor and social activism in the twentieth century. Ruuttila worked for civil liberties, civil rights, and peace organizations throughout her life, supporting striking workers, taking part in lunch-counter protests against businesses that discriminated against African Americans, and demonstrating against the Vietnam War. Polishuk provides insightful historical context for Ruuttila's own lively words. A unique and important perspective on American struggles of the twentieth century emerges in this engaging story of an irrepressible, hard-nosed woman.

Poverty in Common

Author : Alyosha Goldstein
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822351811
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Poverty in Common written by Alyosha Goldstein and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work looks at inter-related post WWII case studies to analyze the ways in which different groups, mostly governmental agencies and emerging activist organizations, invoked the idea of "community" in anti-poverty initiatives during the late 1950s and 1960s.