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

By Frances Fox Piven , Richard Cloward

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1978
ISBN
0394726979, 9780394726977
LCC
HD8076 .P55 1979
Open Library ID
OL22091940M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
38 MB (40146880 bytes)
Pages
402\402
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

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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