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

by Frances Fox Piven

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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:

-- 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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ISBN:
9780394726977
Author:
Cloward, Richard A.
Author:
Piven, Frances F.
Author:
Cloward, Richard
Author:
Cloward, Richard A.
Author:
Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
History
Subject:
Labor & Industrial Relations
Subject:
Afro-americans
Subject:
Sociology - General
Subject:
Government and political science
Subject:
Civil Rights
Subject:
Labor
Subject:
Poverty
Subject:
African Americans
Subject:
Working class
Subject:
Welfare federations
Subject:
Welfare rights movement -- United States -- History.
Subject:
Welfare rights movement.
Subject:
African Americans - Civil rights - History -
Subject:
Working class -- United States.
Subject:
World History-General
Copyright:
1979
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Vintage
Series Volume:
500-30.
Publication Date:
19781231
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
408
Dimensions:
7.97x5.25x.87 in. .84 lbs.
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