Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, how They Fail

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Pantheon Books, 1977 - History - 381 pages
"Four mass movements of the poor are analyzed. Two are drawn from the Great Depression: the movement of the unemployed that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America, and the movement of industrial workers that produced the CIO. And two are drawn from the postwar period: the Southern Civil Rights movement, and the movement of welfare recipients that generated the National Welfare Rights Organization. The industrial workers' and the civil rights movements gained more than the others, and it is the central concern of the authors to show that differences in the use of mass defiance help to explain variations in success"--Book jacket.

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The Unemployed Workers Movement
41
The Industrial Workers Movement
96
The Civil Rights Movement
181
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