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  | | The Undeserving Poor(2nd Edition) America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised by Michael B. Katz Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-993395-2, ISBN: 0-19-993395-2 "First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz's new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will force all concerned Americans to reconsider the foundations of our policies toward the poor, especially in the wake of the Great Recession that began ..." |
 | | Why Don't American Cities Burn? (The City in the Twenty-First Century) by Michael B. Katz Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-2280-7, ISBN: 0-8122-2280-6 "At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia one of seven homicides to occur in the city that day and yet not make the major newspapers. For Michael B. Katz, an urban historian and a juror on the murder trial, the story of Manes and Sho ..." |
 | | Improving Poor People(Reprint) by Michael B. Katz Paperback, 191 Pages, Published 1997 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-01605-4, ISBN: 0-691-01605-4 " "There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and scholarship. But this major historian of urban poverty realizes that the pain in these cities has its origins in the American past. To understand contemporary poverty, he looks particularly at an old attitude: because many nineteenth-century reformers traced extreme ..." |
 | | In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse(2nd Edition) A Social History Of Welfare In America, Tenth Anniversary Edition by Michael B. Katz Paperback, 410 Pages, Published 1996 by Basic Books Deluxe Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-465-03210-5, ISBN: 0-465-03210-9 "With welfare reform a burning political issue, this special anniversary edition of the classic history of welfare in America has been revised and updated to include the latest bipartisan debates on how to end welfare as we know it.”In the Shadow of the Poorhouse examines the origins of social welfare, both public and private, from the days of the colonial poorhouse through the current tragedy of the homeless. The book explains why such ..." |
 | | The"Underclass" Debate(1st Edition) by Michael B. Katz, Michael Barry Katz Paperback, 520 Pages, Published 1992 by Princeton University Press Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-691-00628-4, ISBN: 0-691-00628-8 "Do ominous reports of an emerging "underclass" reveal an unprecedented crisis in American society? Or are social commentators simply rediscovering the tragedy of recurring urban poverty, as they seem to do every few decades? Although social scientists and members of the public make frequent assumptions about these questions, they have little information about the crucial differences between past and present. By providing a badly needed ..." |
 | | Reconstructing American Education(Updated) by Michael B. Katz, Mb Katz Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1989 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-75093-7, ISBN: 0-674-75093-4 "One of the leading historians of education in the United States here develops a powerful interpretation of the uses of history in educational reform and of the relations among democracy, education, and the capitalist state. Michael Katz discusses the reshaping of American education from three perspectives. First is the perspective of history: How did American education take shape? The second is that of reform: What can a historian say a ..." |
 | | The Price of Citizenship(Updated) Redefining the American Welfare State by Michael B. Katz Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-2018-6, ISBN: 0-8122-2018-8 "For Michael B. Katz, the term "welfare state" describes the intricate web of government programs, employer-provided benefits, and semiprivate organizations intended to promote economic security and to guarantee the basic necessities of life for all citizens: food, shelter, medical care, protection in childhood, and support in old age. In this updated edition of his seminal work "The Price of Citizenship," Katz traces the evolution of th ..." |
 | | Public Education Under Siege by Michael B. Katz, Mike Rose, Professor Mike Rose Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-2320-0, ISBN: 0-8122-2320-9 "Public Education Under Siege Edited by Michael B. Katz and Mike Rose "An outstanding book . . . full of riches."--Daily Kos "The book's analyses of what are the limits and dangers of our current fascination with markets, testing, blaming and shaming teachers, anti-union sentiment, and similar things are powerfully stated. But just as importantly in terms of the role of 'public intellectual' efforts, they are refreshingly free of the k ..." |
 | | The Price of Citizenship(1st Edition) Redefining the American Welfare State by Michael B. Katz Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2001 by Metropolitan Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-5208-4, ISBN: 0-8050-5208-9 "From the earliest poor laws to "the of welfare as we know it," the definitive examination of the question underlying all political debate in America: What does the government owe the individual?In The Price of Citizenship, the culmination of twenty years of research and writing, historian Michael B. Katz traces the evolution of the welfare state from colonial relief programs to the war on poverty to our own age of "compassionate conser ..." |
 | | Public Education Under Siege by Michael B. Katz, Mike Rose Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-4527-1, ISBN: 0-8122-4527-X "Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that all children should receive a quality education, and that all of them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever their ethnicity or economic circumstances. But though recent years have seen numerous reform efforts, the resources available to children in different municipalities still vary enormously, and despite landmark cases of the civil rights movement and ongoing pushes ..." |
 | | In the Shadow of the Poorhouse Social History of Welfare in America by Michael B. Katz Hardcover, 338 Pages, Published 1986 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-03225-9, ISBN: 0-465-03225-7 "With welfare reform a burning political issue, this special anniversary edition of the classic history of welfare in America has been revised and updated to include the latest bipartisan debates on how to end welfare as we know it.âIn the Shadow of the Poorhouse examines the origins of social welfare, both public and private, from the days of the colonial poorhouse through the current tragedy of the homeless. The book explains why su ..." |
 | | The People of Hamilton, Canada West(1st Edition) Family and Class in a Mid-nineteenth-century City (Harvard Studies in Urban History) by Michael B. Katz Hardcover, 381 Pages, Published 1975 by Harvard Univ Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-66125-7, ISBN: 0-674-66125-7 |
 | | Why Don't American Cities Burn? (The City in the Twenty-First Century) by Michael B. Katz Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-4386-4, ISBN: 0-8122-4386-2 "At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia one of seven homicides to occur in the city that day and yet not make the major newspapers. For Michael B. Katz, an urban historian and a juror on the murder trial, the story of Manes and Sho ..." |
 | | The Undeserving Poor(89th Edition) From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare by Michael B. Katz Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1990 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-679-72561-9, ISBN: 0-679-72561-X "For the first time in over twenty-five years. the issue of poverty -- and our failure to deal with it -- is back at the top of the policy agenda and on the front page of the news. In this magisterial overview social historian Michael B. Katz, examines the ideas and assumptions that have shaped public policy from the sixties War on Poverty to the current war on welfare. Closely argued and lucidly written. The Undeserving Poor transcends ..." |
 | | In the Shadow of the Poorhouse Social History of Welfare in America: A Social History of Welfare in America by Michael B. Katz, No Noted Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1988 by Basic Books (Short Disc) ISBN-13: 978-0-465-03226-6, ISBN: 0-465-03226-5 "And this tenth anniversary edition contains an expanded introduction and a new concluding chapter, bringing the story to the present and analyzing the politics that lie behind the welfare reform act of 1996." |
 | | The Irony of Early School Reform Educational Innovation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts by Michael B. Katz Hardcover, 338 Pages, Published 1968 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-46650-0, ISBN: 0-674-46650-0 |
 | | W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City(1st Edition) "The Philadelphia Negro" and Its Legacy by Michael B. Katz, Thomas J. Sugrue, Michael Barry Katz, Professor Thomas J. Sugrue Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-1593-9, ISBN: 0-8122-1593-1 ""There is unanimity among these historians and sociologists in ascribing seminal importance to The Philadelphia Negro."--David Levering Lewis, Journal of American History "A splendid collection of essays."--Times Literary Supplement In 1896 W. E. B. Du Bois began research that resulted three years later in the publication of his great classic of urban sociology and history, The Philadelphia Negro. Today, a group of the nation's leadin ..." |
 | | Class, Bureaucracy, and Schools The Illusion of Educational Change in America by Michael B. Katz Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1975 by Praeger Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-275-85100-2, ISBN: 0-275-85100-1 |
 | | One Nation Divisible What America Was and What It Is Becoming (The Russell Sage Foundation Census Series) by Michael B. Katz, Mark J. Stern, Stern Katz Paperback, 361 Pages, Published 2008 by Russell Sage Foundation ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-446-9, ISBN: 0-87154-446-6 "American society today is hardly recognizable from what it was a century ago. Integrated schools, an information economy, and independently successful women are just a few of the remarkable changes that have occurred over just a few generations. Still, the country today is influenced by many of the same factors that revolutionized life in the late nineteenth century immigration, globalization, technology, and shifting social norms and i ..." |
 | | The People of Hamilton, Canada West Family and Class in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century City by Michael B. Katz Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2008 by Acls Humanities E-Book ISBN-13: 978-1-59740-411-2, ISBN: 1-59740-411-X "Book by Katz, Michael B." |
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