Regulating the Poor : The Functions of Public Welfare - Frances Fox Piven

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Regulating the Poor

The Functions of Public Welfare

By: Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward

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Paperback | 4 January 1994 | Edition Number 1

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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 Cloward provide the best explanation to date of our present situation . . . no future discussion of welfare can afford to ignore them."
-Peter Steinfels, The New York Times Book Review

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"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, The New York Times Book Review

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Relief, Labor, and Civil Disorder: An Overview
Relief and the Great Depression
Economic Collapse, Mass Unemployment, and the Rise of Disorder
The New Deal and Relief
Relief and the Years of Stability: 1940–1960
Enforcing Low-Wage Work: Statutory Methods
Enforcing Low Wage Work: Administrative Methods
Relief and the Urban Crisis
The Welfare Explosion of the 1960s
Agricultural Modernization and Mass Unemployment
Migration and the Rise of Disorder in the Cities
The Great Society and Relief: Federal Intervention
The Great Society: Local Consequences
Relief, Deindustrialization, and the War Against Labor: 1970–1990
Poor Relief and the Dramaturgy of Work
Poor Relief and Theories of the Welfare State
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