Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History
The "Underclass" Debate: Views from History (editor)
The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare
Reconstructing American Education
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America
Poverty and Policy in American History
The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism (with Michael J. Doucet and Mark J. Stern)
The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century City
Education and Social Change: Themes from Ontario's Past (editor, with Paul Mattingly)
Education in American History: Readings in the Social Issues (editor)
Class, Bureaucracy, and Schools: The Illusion of Educational Change in America
School Reform: Past and Present (editor)
The Irony of Early School Reform: Educational Innovation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts
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Publication Information: Book Title: In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America. Contributors: Michael B. Katz - author. Publisher: Basic Books. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1996. Page Number: ii.
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