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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail Paperback - 1978

by Frances Fox Piven; Richard Cloward


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Common sense and historical experience combine to suggest a simple but compelling view of the roots of power in any society.

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Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America.

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  • Title Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
  • Author Frances Fox Piven; Richard Cloward
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date December 12, 1978
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780394726977 / 0394726979
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.97 x 5.25 x 0.87 in (20.24 x 13.34 x 2.21 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Civil rights - History, Working class - United States - Political
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 78054652
  • Dewey Decimal Code 322.440

Media reviews

"...enormously instructive."

-- E.J. Hobsbawm, New York Review of Books

"This beautifully written book is the most exciting and important political study in years."

-- S. M. Miller, Department of Sociology, Boston University.

"Of the first importance; it is bound to have a wide and various influence; and it is disturbing."

-- Jack Beatty, The Nation

About the author

France Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York.

Richard A. Cloward was a social worker and sociologist, and was a faculty member at the Columbia University School of Social Work from 1954 until his death in 2001.

They co-authored: The Politics of Turmoil, Poor People's Movements, The New Class War, and Why Americans Don't Vote. They won the C. Wright Mills Award and various international and national awards.

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