Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail

✍ Scribed by Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 408
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 The Structuring of Protest
Chapter 2 The Unemployed Workers’ Movement
Chapter 3 The Industrial Workers’ Movement
Chapter 4 The Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 5 The Welfare Rights Movement
Index
About the Authors

✦ Subjects

working class, history, class struggle, civil rights movement