Poverty in Canada and the United States : Overview and Annotated Bibliography / Benjamin Schlesinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlesinger, Benjamin, Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Bibliography.

Poverty.

Poor--United States--Bibliography.

Poor.

Poor--Canada--Bibliography.

United States.

Canada.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In 1964 the United States began its War on Poverty with the passing of the Economic Opportunity Act, and in the following year Canada announced a similar attack. Since then much has been published in books, journals, pamphlets, and reports relating to this vital concern. Various government departments and academic disciplines, including anthropology, economics, education, history, law, medicine, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public health, religion, social work, and sociology, have examined their relationships and involvements in the War on Poverty, and this Bibliography lists approximately 600 published items from such North American sources. To provide a critical overview of the attack on poverty, Martin Rein, S.M. Miller, and Harris Chaiklin have contributed short papers on the American experience, and B.W. Lappin has presented the problem from the Canadian point of view. Professor Schlesinger has outlined a Canadian profile of poverty, together with the various anti-poverty programs suggested by the Canadian government, since these are less well known and documented than the American counterparts. In addition there is an appendix of articles on poverty found in popular periodicals, and a list of bibliographies on poverty or related topics. Teachers, students, and professionals in the various disciplines named above will find this bibliography valuable, and it will be of interest too to researchers, government officials, and program planners concerned with the War on Poverty.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

MOTIVATING THE POOR / Chaiklin, Harris

WILL THE WAR ON POVERTY CHANGE AMERICA? / Rein, Martin / Miller, S. Michael

A PROFILE OF CANADIAN POVERTY / Schlesinger, Benjamin

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND CANADA'S ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAMS / Lappin, B. W.

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

CANADA

UNITED STATES

APPENDIXES

I. Bibliographies Related to Poverty

II. Popular Articles on Poverty

III. Addresses of Sources of Material Annotated

AUTHOR INDEX

Notes:

Reprinted in 2018.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8383-4

OCLC:

1129164231