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Poor Peoples' Movements / Frances Fox Piven ; Richard A. Cloward

Public ISBD Title : Poor Peoples' Movements Original title : Why They Succeed, How They Fail Material Type: printed text Authors: Frances Fox Piven, Author ; Richard A. Cloward, Author Publisher: Random house Publication Date: 1977 ISBN (or other code): LabPiv1977 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Black Studies Labour, Unionism, Working-Class Poverty Studies Keywords: Poverty, Social Movements, Civil Rights, Frances Fox Piven, Welfare, Industrial Strikes Abstract: "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." Poor Peoples' Movements = Why They Succeed, How They Fail [printed text] / Frances Fox Piven, Author ; Richard A. Cloward, Author . - [S.l.] : Random house, 1977. ISSN : LabPiv1977 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Black Studies Labour, Unionism, Working-Class Poverty Studies Keywords: Poverty, Social Movements, Civil Rights, Frances Fox Piven, Welfare, Industrial Strikes Abstract: "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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LABPIV1979	LABPIV1979	Livre/Book	Labour Library	Labour, Unionism, Working-Class	Available