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Retrospective Comments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2004

Frances Fox Piven
Frances Fox Piven
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Is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (fpiven@hotmail.com). She writes about social movements, the welfare state, and American electoral politics. Her books include Regulating the Poor, The New Class War, and Why Americans Still Don't Vote.
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Abstract

Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. By Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. 381 pages.

Type
Symposium: Poor People's Movements
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 707 - 710
Copyright
© 2003 by the American Political Science Association

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