Today it is impossible to separate discussion of poverty from the priorities of state welfare. A hundred years ago, most working-class households avoided or cop

This comparison of rural development in India and the United States develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a

Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.

"There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between acti

This volume lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance has been transforme