Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail by Richard A. Cloward, Frances Fox Piven

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

Richard A. Cloward, Frances Fox Piven

408 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, ...

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