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• catalog abstract "Thirty years ago, the great national issue was how to help ordinary, workaday Americans achieve the good things in life. Today, we are preoccupied with--and increasingly divided over--how to cope with the problems of poor and dependent Americans, most of whom do not work. The growth in the number of nonworking poor people--and the failure of traditional social reforms to bring them back into the mainstream--has transformed American politics beyond recognition. According to Lawrence Mead, one of this country's leading poverty experts, whose writings have helped shift national welfare policy toward work requirements, we are faced today with a new dependency politics, where the issue is no longer whether there are enough jobs for the poor but why so many poor either cannot or will not work at the jobs available. Throughout the West a politics of morals and personal conduct is driving out older disputes over workers and the organization of society. Mead provides overwhelming and disturbing evidence that passive poverty--the failure of most of the poor to work at all--reflects defeatism more than lack of opportunity. This demoralization of the poor has alienated them from the working majority, with tragic consequences both for them and for America.".
• catalog contributor b3556603.
• catalog coverage "United States Economic conditions 1981-2001.".
• catalog coverage "United States Economic policy 1981-1993.".
• catalog created "c1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "c1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
• catalog description "Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Crisis of Reform -- Ch. 3. The Costs of Nonwork -- Ch. 4. Low Wages and Hard Times -- Ch. 5. Are Jobs Available? -- Ch. 6. Barriers to Employment -- Ch. 7. Human Nature -- Ch. 8. Policy -- Ch. 9. Welfare Reform -- Ch. 10. The Wider Meaning of Dependency -- Ch. 11. The Prospect.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-345) and index.".
• catalog description "Thirty years ago, the great national issue was how to help ordinary, workaday Americans achieve the good things in life. Today, we are preoccupied with--and increasingly divided over--how to cope with the problems of poor and dependent Americans, most of whom do not work. The growth in the number of nonworking poor people--and the failure of traditional social reforms to bring them back into the mainstream--has transformed American politics beyond recognition. According to Lawrence Mead, one of this country's leading poverty experts, whose writings have helped shift national welfare policy toward work requirements, we are faced today with a new dependency politics, where the issue is no longer whether there are enough jobs for the poor but why so many poor either cannot or will not work at the jobs available. Throughout the West a politics of morals and personal conduct is driving out older disputes over workers and the organization of society. Mead provides overwhelming and disturbing evidence that passive poverty--the failure of most of the poor to work at all--reflects defeatism more than lack of opportunity. This demoralization of the poor has alienated them from the working majority, with tragic consequences both for them and for America.".
• catalog extent "xii, 356 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "New politics of poverty.".
• catalog identifier "0465050697 (pbk.)".
• catalog identifier "0465059627 :".
• catalog isFormatOf "New politics of poverty.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "c1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York, NY : BasicBooks,".
• catalog relation "New politics of poverty.".
• catalog spatial "United States Economic conditions 1981-2001.".
• catalog spatial "United States Economic policy 1981-1993.".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "362.5/0973 20".
• catalog subject "HC110.P6 M34 1992".
• catalog subject "Poor United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Crisis of Reform -- Ch. 3. The Costs of Nonwork -- Ch. 4. Low Wages and Hard Times -- Ch. 5. Are Jobs Available? -- Ch. 6. Barriers to Employment -- Ch. 7. Human Nature -- Ch. 8. Policy -- Ch. 9. Welfare Reform -- Ch. 10. The Wider Meaning of Dependency -- Ch. 11. The Prospect.".
• catalog title "The new politics of poverty : the nonworking poor in America / Lawrence M. Mead.".
• catalog type "text".