Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Piven

Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Piven

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

Frances Fox Piven is the past Vice-President of the American Political Science Association, has served as program co-chair of the annual political science meetings, and is a past president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She is currently President of the American Sociological Association. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the President's Award of the American Public Health Association, and the American Sociological Association's Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, as well as their award for the Public Understanding of Sociology.

She is the author of the bestselling Poor People's Movements, Regulating the Poor, and Why Americans Don't Vote (with the late Richard A. Cloward), as well as The War At Home, Keeping Down the Black Vote, and many other books.

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Title	Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
Author	Frances Piven
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House Inc (T)
Number of pages	389
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