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

by Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward

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ISBN13: 9780394726977
ISBN10: 0394726979
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`	dotsied01 , November 13, 2013 To find out why the impoverished don't organize was quite compelling and highly disturbing. I fully understand why now and what keeps them away from halls of power. Insightful.
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ISBN:: 9780394726977
Binding:: Trade Paperback
Publication date:: 12/12/1978
Publisher:: Vintage
Language:: English
Pages:: 416
Height:: .87IN
Width:: 5.25IN
Thickness:: 1.00
LCCN:: 78054652
Number of Units:: 1
Copyright Year:: 1979
Series Volume:: 500-30.
UPC Code:: 2800394726979
Author:: Richard A. Cloward
Author:: Richard Cloward
Author:: Frances F. Piven
Author:: Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
Author:: Frances Fox Piven
Author:: Frances Fox Piven
Subject:: Welfare federations
Subject:: History
Subject:: Working class -- United States.
Subject:: Welfare rights movement -- United States -- History.
Subject:: Poverty
Subject:: African Americans - Civil rights - History -
Subject:: Government and political science
Subject:: Welfare rights movement.
Subject:: Afro-americans
Subject:: African Americans
Subject:: Working class
Subject:: World History-General