01364nam a22002177a 4500 20211001115557.0 211001b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0465019919 23 362.580973 GANW Herbert J Gans 632 War Against the Poor The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy New York Basic books 1995 xi,195 p PB 20x13 cm 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, 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-centered policy proposals and a multifaceted educational plan to stop the endless flow of new recruits into America's untouchable caste. Poor 633 Public Welfare 634 Economic Assistance 635 GANS (Herbert J) 636 ddc GF 216458 216458 0 0 ddc 0 0 SW AL AL 2013-03-24 0 362.580973 GANW GF01320 2021-10-01 00:00:00 2021-10-01 GF