The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy by Herbert Gans

The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy

Herbert Gans

208 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative medium-paced
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In 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, tee...

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