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Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail

By Frances Fox Piven , Richard A. Cloward

Book information

Publisher
Vintage Books
Year
1979
ISBN
9780394726977, 0394726979
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7145753 bytes)
Pages
408\408
Topic
History
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-06-01 19:09:37
civil rights movementClass StruggleHistoryworking class

Description

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:-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America-- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO-- The Southern Civil Rights Movement-- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization.

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