By Gwendolyn Mink, Alice M. O'Connor
Poverty within the usa: An Encyclopedia of historical past, Politics, and Policy follows the background of poverty within the usa with an emphasis at the twentieth century, and examines the evolvement of public coverage and the influence of severe hobbies in social welfare comparable to the hot Deal, the battle on Poverty, and, extra lately, the "end of welfare as we all know it." Encompassing the contributions of 1000's of specialists, together with historians, sociologists, and political scientists, this source presents a much wider point of knowledge than prior, hugely selective works.
With nearly three hundred alphabetically-organized issues, it covers subject matters and matters starting from affirmative motion to the Bracero application, the good melancholy, and dwelling salary campaigns to household abuse and unemployment. different entries describe and examine the definitions and motives of poverty, the connection of the welfare nation to poverty, and the political responses via the bad, middle-class pros, and the coverage elite.
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In Clark’s economics and subsequently in neoclassicism, the value (or the price) of things was the result of their “utility,” or their capacity to satisfy wants. This is a demand-side rather than a supply-side judgment made by consumers. The way Clark figured it, every factor of production—every individual unit of labor, land, and capital—would get exactly the value it produced, so long as there was full and effective competition. Apparently unmoved by the Great Merger Movement going on around him at the turn of the century and by heavy criticism from Veblen, among others, Clark claimed that the forces suppressing competition—monopoly, problems in the money supply, excess immigration—were only temporary; like waves made 18 by blowing on the surface of a tub of water, they would disappear.
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In America, Lincoln insisted, the prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor—the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way for all, gives hope to all, and energy and progress and improvement of condition to all. (Lincoln [1858] 1953, 478–479) Lincoln’s moving expression captured the social and cultural aspirations of northerners before the Civil War, and the democratization of American free society did indeed give (healthy, white) males a larger measure of control over their economic, political, and social lives than similarly situated men anywhere else.
