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

By:

Piven, Frances Fox

By:

Cloward, Richard A

Publication details: New York: Vintage Books, 1977Description: 381ISBN:

9780394726977

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DDC classification:

322.440973 PIV

Summary: 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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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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