The Discovery of Poverty in the United StatesTransaction Publishers - 364 lappuses In contrast to cultures that have accepted poverty as inevitable, Americans have tended to regard it as an abnormal condition, one that may be alleviated by a combination of social reform, hard work, and spiritual discipline. In a dispassionate way, Bremner was the first to critically examine the origins and transformations of American attitudes toward poverty and reform. |
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PART ONE America Awakens to Poverty c 18301897 | 1 |
The Problem Emerges | 3 |
Shifting Attitudes | 16 |
The Charitable Impulse | 31 |
The Rise of Social Work | 46 |
Late NineteenthCentury Social Investigations | 67 |
The Discovery of Poverty in Literature | 86 |
The Poverty Theme in Art and Illustration | 108 |
A Factual Generation | 140 |
The Literary Record | 164 |
Art for Lifes Sake | 185 |
PART THREE | 199 |
CONCLUSION The Price of Reform | 260 |
A NOTE ON THE SOURCES | 269 |
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