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Lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. This book argues that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments.

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"Disciplining the Poor is a landmark book on the governance of poverty in the United States, the most important such work since Piven and Cloward's Regulating the Poor, written a generation ago, and an exemplar of multi-method social science research." (Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)"

Disciplining the Poor

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    A Hardback by Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 30 November 2011
      ISBN-13 9780226768762
      978-0226768762
      ISBN-10 0226768767
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      Central / national / federal government policies Poverty and precarity Social welfare, social policy and social services

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. This book argues that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments.

      Trade Review
      "Disciplining the Poor is a landmark book on the governance of poverty in the United States, the most important such work since Piven and Cloward's Regulating the Poor, written a generation ago, and an exemplar of multi-method social science research." (Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)"

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