Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public WelfarePiven 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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Contents
RELIEF AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS | 38 |
The New Deal and Relief | 80 |
FOUR | 123 |
Administrative Methods | 147 |
Relief and the Urban Crisis | 183 |
Agricultural Modernization and Mass Unemployment | 200 |
Migration and the Rise of Disorder in the Cities | 222 |
Federal Intervention | 248 |
THE FEDERAL STRATEGY IN TIIE cITIEs | 256 |
Local Consequences | 285 |
Poor Relief and the Dramaturgy of Work | 343 |
IWELVE | 407 |
Appendix | 456 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare |
| Authors | Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012 |
| ISBN | 0307814645, 9780307814647 |
| Length | 544 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory |
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