Alice B. O'Connor

Alice O'Connor, Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1991.

Selected Publications

• Social Science for What?: Philanthropy and the Social Question in a World Turned Rightside Up (Russell Sage Foundation, 2007)
• Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy and the Poor in 20th Century U.S. History (Princeton University Press, 2001). (Excerpt)
• Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities, co-edited with Chris Tilly and Lawrence Bobo, (Russell Sage Foundation, 2001)
• Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Politics, co-edited with Gwendolyn Mink, (ABC-Clio, 2004)
• "The Privatized City: The Manhattan Institute, the Urban Crisis, and the Conservative Counterrevolution in New York," Journal of Urban History January
• "The Politics of Rich and Rich: Postwar Investigations of Foundations and the Rise of the Philanthropic Right" In American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century, edited by Nelson Lichtenstein. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)