New poverty studies : the ethnography of power, politics, and impoverished people in the United States / edited by Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goode, Judith, 1939-

Maskovsky, Jeff.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

United States.

Poor--United States.

Poor.

Power (Social sciences)--United States.

Power (Social sciences).

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

United States--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

United States--Social conditions--1945-.

United States--Economic policy.

Local Subjects:

United States--Social conditions--1945-.

United States--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

xii, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2001]

Summary:

Stock market euphoria and blind faith in the post-Cold War economy have driven the topic of poverty from popular and scholarly discussion in the United States. At the same time the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. The New Poverty Studies critically examines the new war against the poor that has accompanied the rise of the New Economy in the past two decades, and details the myriad ways poor people have struggled against it.

In updating the 1960s encounter between ethnography and U.S. poverty, The New Poverty Studies highlights the ways poverty is constructed across multiple scales and multiple axes of difference.

Questioning the common wisdom that poverty persists because of the pathology, social isolation and welfare state "dependency" of the poor, the contributors to The New Poverty Studies point instead to economic restructuring and neoliberal policy "reforms" which have caused increased social inequality and economic polarization in the U.S.

Contents:

New dimensions of inequality. Households headed by women : the politics of class, race and gender / Leith mullings (reprint from Conceiving the new world order. The global politics of reproduction / edited by Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp. (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1995). Poverty despite family ties / Peter Kwong. What's debt got to do with it / Brett Williams. The tables are turned : immigration, poverty, and social conflict in California communities / Patricia Zavella (reprint from Immigrants out! : the new nativism and the anti-immigrant impulse in the United States / Juan F. Perea, ed., New York : New York University Press, 1997)

The fallacy of "reform". Welfare reform and the economic and cultural reconstruction of low wage labor markets / Frances Fox Piven (reprint of Piven, Frances Fox. Welfare reform and the economic and cultural reconstruction of low wage labor markets. City and society annual review, 1998). Poor women, fair work, and welfare-to-work that works / Sandra Morgen and Jill Weigt. Coming of age in Oakland / Carol Stack

Poverty and neoliberal governance. From citizen to volunteer : neoliberal goverance and the erasure of poverty / Susan Brin Hyatt. Microenterprise training programs, neo-liberal common sense, and the discourses of self-esteem / Donna Goldstein. Producing disunity : the constraints and incitements of welfare work / Catherine Kingfisher. Homelessness, employment, and structural violence : exploring constraints on collective mobilizations against systemic inequality / Vincent Lyon-Callo

Poverty, difference and activism. "I am not a problem without a solution" : poverty and transnational migration / Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron. Let's get our act together : how racial discourses disrupt neighborhood activism / Judith Goode. From plant closing to political movement : challenging the logic of economic destruction in Tennessee / Eve S. Weinbaum

Theories, politics and policy. Suburbanization and urban poverty under neoliberalism / Matthew Ruben

Afterword : beyond the privatist consensus / Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814731155

0814731163

OCLC:

47182550