Regulating the Poor The Functions of Public Welfare
by Piven, Frances Fox; Cloward, RichardEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-09-28
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary
Historical study of the functions of the relief system in America reveals that its policies are cyclical, expanding in times of civil disorder and contracting once political stability is restored
Author Biography
Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York.
Richard A. Cloward was a social worker and sociologist, and was a faculty member at the Columbia University School of Social Work from 1954 until his death in 2001.
They co-authored: The Politics of Turmoil, Poor People's Movements, The New Class War, and Why Americans Don't Vote. They won the C. Wright Mills Award and various international and national awards.
Richard A. Cloward was a social worker and sociologist, and was a faculty member at the Columbia University School of Social Work from 1954 until his death in 2001.
They co-authored: The Politics of Turmoil, Poor People's Movements, The New Class War, and Why Americans Don't Vote. They won the C. Wright Mills Award and various international and national awards.
Table of Contents
| Relief, Labor, and Civil Disorder: An Overview | |
| Relief and the Great Depression | |
| Economic Collapse, Mass Unemployment, and the Rise of Disorder | |
| The New Deal and Relief | |
| Relief and the Years of Stability: 1940–1960 | |
| Enforcing Low-Wage Work: Statutory Methods | |
| Enforcing Low Wage Work: Administrative Methods | |
| Relief and the Urban Crisis | |
| The Welfare Explosion of the 1960s | |
| Agricultural Modernization and Mass Unemployment | |
| Migration and the Rise of Disorder in the Cities | |
| The Great Society and Relief: Federal Intervention | |
| The Great Society: Local Consequences | |
| Relief, Deindustrialization, and the War Against Labor: 1970–1990 | |
| Poor Relief and the Dramaturgy of Work | |
| Poor Relief and Theories of the Welfare State | |
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