Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Frances Fox Piven, Richard ClowardPublish date:1993-09-28Pages:544
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679745167ISBN-10:679745165UPC:9780679745167Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Public Policy, Poverty & HomelessnessBook Topic:Social Theory, Social Services & WelfareSize:7.97 x 5.21 x 1.05 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SCAHBPQ5YZ
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
--Peter Steinfels, The New York Times Book Review
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679745167ISBN-10:679745165UPC:9780679745167Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Public Policy, Poverty & HomelessnessBook Topic:Social Theory, Social Services & WelfareSize:7.97 x 5.21 x 1.05 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SCAHBPQ5YZ
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.
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