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Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing
Lee Staples, Richard A. Cloward, ...

Praeger Paperback, 1984

A definitive reference and handbook that describes community groups and gives detailed examples of how to organize and maintain them.

Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare

5 reviews
Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward

Vintage, 1993

A revealing examination of an insidious system
Authors Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven blew the cover off the public welfare system with this book over thirty years ago. I have yet to read any satisfactory rebuttal to their theory over the intervening decades. How best to keep the poor poor? How best to placate them? How best to control the labor pool of American society? Not with riot gear and tear gas (although we haven't been above ...

The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism

1 review
Frances Fox Piven

New Press, 2006

A sharp indictment of the neoconservative agenda
"The War at Home" by Frances Fox Piven is a sharp indictment of the Bush administration's neoconservative agenda. Cloaked in the righteousness of war, Ms. Piven argues that extremist elements within the Republican Party skilfully exploited the public's fears in order to further a radical domestic agenda. By demonstrating that this behavior flies in the face of history -- where war has often been ...

Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (Polemics)

1 review
Frances Fox Piven

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008

Bumpercrop of Refusal
Too often, discussion about the viability of change sprouting from the electoral system is shrunk to fit bumperstickers. Even harder to find is nuanced analysis when the politics of protest--direct action, and mob action become the issue of the day. Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America by Francis Fox Piven offers readers a history lesson of the ways in which progressive ...

Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters (The New Press)
Frances Fox Piven, Lori Minnite, ...

New Press, 2009

A controversial examination of how our political system, despite "get out the vote" rhetoric, works to suppress the vote—especially the votes of African Americans. "Karl Rove began to impress upon leading Republicans...that...one way to address the party's electoral problem...was to suppress black and Hispanic turnout—a task that would become far easier if the airwaves were buzzing with news of voter-fraud indictments." —Harold ...

Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way

3 reviews
Frances Fox Piven

Beacon Press, 2000

Eye-Opening
Piven and Cloward offer an intelligent, yet readable discussion on the downsizing of the American electorate. They claim that having low voter participation helps the controlling factions of the political parties remain unthreatened. They include a history of voter participation and representation in all levels of American politics and the factors that still leave some groups underrepresented ...

Welfare: A Documentary History Of U.S. Policy And Politics

1 review
Gwendolyn Mink, Rickie Solinger, ...

NYU Press, 2003

Unfinished Work
This is a very difficult read. The authors present us with about 187 chapters of documents written between 1884 to 2002 from hundreds of different authors. This may be a fine set of reference for anybody who wishes to write a "good" documentary history of Welfare. However, its presentatation is disjointed. Wonderful history books present us with relevant facts and insights on a particular ...

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

2 reviews
Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward

Vintage, 1978

Relevant and instructive
As both a heady intellectual and a pragmatic field organizer, I have throughly enjoyed this book. Don't be thrown off by the dry (yet incisive) introduction on the cycles of social movements. The chapters that follow provide journalistic historical narrative on the civil rights, labor, welfare rights movements and illustrate their theory. I would highly recommend it.

How East New York Became a Ghetto

7 reviews
Walter Thabit, Frances Fox Piven

NYU Press, 2005

A Must Read For Anyone Who Is Interested in Cities
In this very readable book Walter Thabit describes the decline and rebirth of East New York. It is both readable and methodical in desribing how real estate, politics (from the federal level to the community school board)and prejudice (economic and racial) destroyed a viable community. Special interests groups from community based organizations to the teachers unions to uniformed city workers ...

The Breaking of the American Social Compact

1 review
Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward

New Press, 1997

Falling deeper into the political rabbit hole.
Great book discussing the effects of globalization upon the working class in American society. Piven and Cloward effectively discuss the weakening of the working class, the disproportional influence of businesses, corporations, and other capital-holders upon the governing process, the attack upon welfare relief programs, the impacts of poor people's political movements. Piven and Cloward assert ...

Work, Welfare and Politics: Confronting Poverty in the Wake of Welfare Reform

University of Oregon Press, 2002

Work, Welfare and Politics sheds much needed light on the ideology and impacts of the 1996 welfare reform legislation. Led by Frances Fox Piven, activist, professor and author from City University of New York, notable scholars, advocates and policymakers explore the timely issues facing legislators in 2002. From politics and social control to families and childcare, this volume, which is a collection of papers originally presented at a 2000 ...

Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies (Europe and the International Order)

Oxford University Press, USA, 1992

The political landscape created by industrialization in the first half of the twentieth century has become increasingly unstable as the industrial labor force contracts, eroding support for labor parties on a global scale. This volume examines challenges faced by labor in the West over the last decade, through a comparative study of labor-based political parties in the United States, England, France, West Germany, Sweden, Israel and Canada. ...

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