The Price of Citizenship (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael B. Katz
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Current affairs, economics, history, and sociology
- Time of Work: American colonial times to the present
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, History, Sociology, Economics
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Social reform, Social issues, Poverty or poor people, Law or legislation, Economic policy
- Locales: United States
Painstakingly gathering information from numerous studies into one volume, Michael Katz produces a history and criticism of social programs, both private and public welfare. He argues that public policy has been influenced to reduce programs by misrepresentations and the “willful ignorance” of conservatives seeking to trim welfare roles, extend favor to corporations, and advance a particular moral agenda.
Beginning with a prologue entitled “The Invention of Welfare,” Katz provides twelve chapters, an epilogue, and eighty-nine pages of notes to support his points. Each...
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