6 títulos para "Katz Michael J"

LEGAL INFORMATICS

DANIEL MARTIN KATZ/RON DOLIN/MICHAEL J. BOMMARITO

Why Don't American Cities Burn?

Katz, Michael B.

At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia--one of seven homicides to occur in the city that d...

The Price of Citizenship

Katz, Michael B

For Michael B. Katz, the term "welfare state" describes the intricate web of government programs, employer-provided benefits, and semiprivate organizations intended to promote economic security and to guarantee the basic necessities of life for all citizens: food, shelter, medical care, pr...

In the Shadow of the Poorhouse

Michael BKatz/Michael B. Katz

With welfare reform a burning political issue, this special anniversary edition of the classic history of welfare in America has been revised and updated to include the latest bipartisan debates on how to “end welfare as we know it.”In the Shadow of the Poorhouse examines the origin...

Templets and the Explanation of Complex Patterns

Katz, Michael J.

Improving Poor People

Katz, Michael B.

"There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and scholarship. But this major historian of urban poverty realizes that the pain in these cities has its origins in the American past....