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13 produkter
Regulating the Poor
The Functions of Public Welfare
Av Richard Cloward, Frances Fox Piven
E-bok, 2012
76 kr
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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 …
Poor People's Movements
Why They Succeed, How They Fail
Av Richard Cloward, Frances Fox Piven
E-bok, 2012
84 kr
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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 …
Poor People's Movements
Why They Succeed, How They Fail
Av Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward
Häftad, 1978
208 kr
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Challenging Authority
How Ordinary People Change America
Häftad, 2008
375 kr
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Challenging Authority argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, …
Why Americans Still Don't Vote
And Why Politicians Want It That Way
Av Frances Fox Piven, Joshua Cohen
Häftad, 2000
437 kr
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Lean Years
A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933
Av Frances Fox Piven, Irving Bernstein
Häftad, 2010
273 kr
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From the Roaring Twenties through to the Great Depression, Irving Bernstein presents a comprehensive history of the American workforce. The Lean Years is the first instalment of Bernstein's critically acclaimed trilogy on the American labour movement which charts how the New Deal and labour unions …
Turbulent Years
A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941
Av Frances Fox Piven, Irving Bernstein
Häftad, 2010
308 kr
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A groundbreaking moment in the discourse of the labour movement and a classic text which revolutionised social history. Bernstein uncovers a period when industrial trade unionism, working-class power and socialism became a rallying cry for millions of workers; from fields, mills, mines and …
Lessons For Our Struggle
Häftad, 2012
124 kr
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Francis Fox Piven, a celebrated political thinker and activist, offers a concise introduction to her award-winning writings on imperialism, voting and poverty as it relates to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Piven offers a clear historical context to the current struggles around economic …
Lessons for Our Struggle
E-bok, 2012
128 kr
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"Piven has embodied the best of American democracy."— The Nation Frances Fox Piven reminds us why we must understand the labor, civil-rights, and anti-imperialist struggles of the Depression era if we are going to advance the struggles of the present. Frances Fox Piven is the author of many …
Breaking of the American Social Contract
Av Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward
Häftad, 1998
256 kr
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In this text, social critics Francis Fox Piven and Richard Cloward address the tumultuous politics of the 1970s, 80s and 90s that have culminated in an all-out assault on the American social compact. Delving into the political dynamics behind the rise of the working class in the 1930s and 1960s, …
War at Home
The Domestic Causes and Consequences of Bush's Militarism
Inbunden, 2004
252 kr
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While numerous analysts have discussed, and decried, the geopolitical ambitions of the Bush administration and its neoconservative allies, the attention to America's imperial posture overseas has turned eyes away from a crucial dimension of belligerent foreign policy: the domestic politics of war. …
War At Home
The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism
Häftad, 2006
319 kr
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While numerous analysts have discussed, and decried, the geopolitical ambitions of the Bush administration and its neoconservative allies, the attention to America's imperial posture overseas has turned eyes away from a crucial dimension of belligerent foreign policy: the domestic politics of war. …
Who's Afraid Of Frances Fox Piven
The Essential Writings of the Professor Glen Beck Loves to Hate
Häftad, 2011
160 kr
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Sociologist and political scientist Frances Fox Piven and her late husband Richard Cloward have been famously credited by Glenn Beck - the right-wing Fox News presenter - with devising a world view responsible for everything from creating a culture of poverty to fomenting violent revolution, …
