Full name: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare

Authors: Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward Year: 1971 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Sociology, History, Politics, Economics Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780679745167 9780394460383 0679745165 0394460383

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 Similar books: The Other America by Michael Harrington The Great Disruption by Francis Fukuyama Coming Apart by Charles Murray America by Chris Hedges Flat Broke with Children by Sharon Hays $2.00 a Day by Kathryn Edin Poor People's Movements by Frances Fox Piven The Working Poor by David K. Shipler When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson The Truly Disadvantaged by William Julius Wilson The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills No Shame in My Game by Katherine S. Newman Trust by Francis Fukuyama The American Way of Poverty by Sasha Abramsky Class by Paul Fussell The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein The Establishment by Owen Jones The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan Blowout by Rachel Maddow The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein