{"product_id":"the-war-against-the-poor-the-underclass-and-antipoverty-policy-9780465019915","title":"The War Against The Poor The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his withering dissection of the origins and misuse of the term  underclass to stereotype and stigmatize the poor, Herbert J. Gans shows how this ubiquitous label has relegated a wide variety of people,welfare recipients, the working poor, teenage mothers, drug addicts, the homeless, and others,to a single condemned class, feared and despised by the rest of society. Probing the deep psychological, social, and political reasons why Americans seek to indict millions of poor citizens as  undeserving, Gans calls for a cease-fire in the undeclared war against the poor. He concludes with a set of innovative, job-centreed policy proposals and a multifaceted educational plan to stop the endless flow of new recruits into America''s untouchable caste.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLabeling the Poor; The Invention of the Underclass Label; The Dangers of Underclass and Other Labels; The Undeservingness of the Poor; Policies Against Poverty and Undeservingness; Joblessness and Antipoverty Policy in the Twenty-first Century","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767543660887,"sku":"9780465019915","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780465019915.jpg?v=1758713708","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-war-against-the-poor-the-underclass-and-antipoverty-policy-9780465019915","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}