Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 8. velj 2012. - Broj stranica: 544
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
 

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An Overview
3
RESTORING ORDER BY RESTORING WORK
22
RELIEF AND THE Political PROCEss
38
Disorder AND ELECTORAL REALIGNMENT
66
The New Deal and Relief
80
Four
123
Administrative Methods
147
Agricultural Modernization and Mass Unemployment
200
THE WEAKENING of social control
223
Federal Intervention
248
THE FEDERAL strategy IN THE CITIEs
256
The Great Society and Relief Local Consequences
285
THE IMPACT of THE WELFARE RIGHTs Movement
330
Poor Relief and the Dramaturgy of Work
343
Twelve
407
Appendix
456

the Persistence of relief restrictions in
217

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O autoru (2012)

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.

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