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

Piven, Frances Fox

Poor People's Movements : Why They Succeed, How They Fail - New York Vintage Books 1977 - 381

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:

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Labor and laboring classs
Americans
Welfare rights movement

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