Poor People's Movements

Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York.With Richard A. Cloward, she 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.With France Fox Piven, he 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.