Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare - Hardcover

Piven, Frances Fox

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394460383 ISBN 13: 9780394460383

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1971

Synopsis

Historical study of the functions of the relief system in America reveals that its policies are cyclical, expanding in times of civil disorder and contracting once political stability is restored

About this title

From the Publisher:

"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 the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0394460383
• ISBN 13: 9780394460383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 389