Poor People's Movements

Poor People's Movements
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 409
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ISBN-10 : 9780307814678
ISBN-13 : 030781467X
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Book Synopsis Poor People's Movements by : Frances Fox Piven

Download or read book Poor People's Movements written by Frances Fox Piven and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America: -- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America -- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO -- The Southern Civil Rights Movement -- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization.


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