Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century

✍ Scribed by Alyosha Goldstein

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 392
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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