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

Authors: Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward Year: 1977 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780394726977 0394726979

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, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America: -- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America -- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO -- The Southern Civil Rights Movement -- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization. Similar books: The Other America by Michael Harrington Rising Tide by John M. Barry Death of a Nation by Dinesh D'Souza Contrary Notions by Michael Parenti Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast Modern Times by Paul Johnson How Would a Patriot Act? by Glenn Greenwald Reconstruction by Eric Foner After America by Mark Steyn The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky The New New Deal by Michael Grunwald Race And Culture by Thomas Sowell A History of the Modern Middle East by William L. Cleveland The Arabs by Eugene Rogan Ain't My America by Bill Kauffman The Age of Federalism by Stanley Elkins