Frances Fox Piven

Regulating the Poor

The Functions of Public Welfare

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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 C… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Cloward, Richard

ISBN: 978-0-307-81464-7
EAN: 9780307814647
Produktnummer: 15723066
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 544 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'314 KB

Über den Autor

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.