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Regulating the Poor

The Functions of Public Welfare

The Functions of Public Welfare

By Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward

By Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward

By Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward

By Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward

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Sep 28, 1993 | ISBN 9780679745167

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Feb 08, 2012 | ISBN 9780307814647

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    About Regulating the Poor

    Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state’s massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the U.S. welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to shape the debate within current and future administrations as they attempt to rethink the welfare system and its role in American society.

    “Uncompromising and provocative. . . . By mixing history, political interpretation and sociological analysis, Piven and Cloward provide the best explanation to date of our present situation . . . no future discussion of welfare can afford to ignore them.”
    —Peter Steinfels, The New York Times Book Review

    About Regulating the Poor

    Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state’s massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the U.S. welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to shape the debate within current and future administrations as they attempt to rethink the welfare system and its role in American society.

    “Uncompromising and provocative….By mixing history, political interpretation and sociological analysis, Piven and Cloward provide the best explanation to date of our present situation…no future discussion of welfare can afford to ignore them.”
    —Peter Steinfels, The New York Times Book Review

    About Frances Fox Piven

    Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York.With Richard… More about Frances Fox Piven

    About Richard Cloward

    Richard A. Cloward was a social worker and sociologist, and was a faculty member at the Columbia University School of Social… More about Richard Cloward

    About Frances Fox Piven

    Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York.With Richard… More about Frances Fox Piven

    About Richard Cloward

    Richard A. Cloward was a social worker and sociologist, and was a faculty member at the Columbia University School of Social… More about Richard Cloward

    Product Details

    Category: Psychology | Domestic Politics

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 28, 1993 | 544 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679745167

    Category: Psychology | Domestic Politics

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 08, 2012 | 544 Pages | ISBN 9780307814647
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    Praise

    “Uncompromising and provocative….By mixing history, political interpretation and sociological analysis, Piven and Cloward provide the best explanation to date of our present situation…no future discussion of welfare can afford to ignore them.”–Peter Steinfels, The New York Times Book Review

    Table Of Contents

    1. Relief, Labor, and Civil Disorder: An Overview

    Part I: Relief and the Great Depression
    2. Economic Collapse, Mass Unemployment, and the Rise of Disorder
    3. The New Deal and Relief

    Part II: Relief and the Years of Stability: 1940–1960
    4. Enforcing Low-Wage Work: Statutory Methods
    5. Enforcing Low Wage Work: Administrative Methods

    Part III: Relief and the Urban Crisis
    6. The Welfare Explosion of the 1960s
    7. Agricultural Modernization and Mass Unemployment
    8. Migration and the Rise of Disorder in the Cities
    9. The Great Society and Relief: Federal Intervention
    10. The Great Society: Local Consequences

    Part IV: Relief, Deindustrialization, and the War Against Labor: 1970–1990
    11. Poor Relief and the Dramaturgy of Work
    12. Poor Relief and Theories of the Welfare State

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