Departmental Papers (SPP)
Title
Review of Dan Zuberi, Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada
Document Type
Review
Date of this Version
September 2007
Abstract
My chief regret is that Mettler's messages may "fall between two chairs." In striving to reach a wider readership through simple and schematic language, her book does not give serious students of public policy enough empirical and theoretical meat to chew on. (One might call the book a "tasting menu.") At the same time, to Mettler's credit, the book is just not sufficiently folksy and anecdotal to make it a likely candidate for The New York Times's best-seller list. But read it anyway. You will still learn a lot.
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Date Posted: 06 November 2007
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Copyright The University of Chicago Press.
Reprinted from American Journal of Sociology, Volume 113, Issue 2, September 2007, pages 584-586.
Publisher URL: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJS/journal/contents/v113n2.html