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      Lessons For Our Struggle

      Frances Fox Piven

      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…

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      Who’s Afraid Of Frances Fox Piven: The Essential Writings of the Professor Glen Beck Loves to Hate

      Frances Fox Piven

      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…

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      Why Americans Still Don’t Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way

      Frances Fox Piven

      Americans take for granted that ours is the very model of a democracy. At the core of this belief is the assumption that the right to vote is firmly established…

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      How East New York Became a Ghetto

      Walter Thabit

      The story of East New York, once a working-class immigrant neighborhood, it became a largely black and Puerto Rican one, and shows how a series of racially biased policies caused…

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      How East New York Became a Ghetto

      Walter Thabit

      In response to the riots of the mid-1960s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low and moderate-income housing…

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      The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933

      Frances Fox Piven,Irving Bernstein

      A fascinating, comprehensive study of the American workforce, from the roaring twenties through the Great Depression.

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      The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941

      Frances Fox Piven,Irving Bernstein

      The era of American labor’s greatest struggles, vividly reconstructed by one of labor history’s greatest historians.

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      Regulating Poor

      Frances Piven

      Historical study of the functions of the relief system in America reveals that its policies are cyclical, expanding in times of civil disorder and contracting once political stability is restored.

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      Welfare: A Documentary History Of U.S. Policy And Politics

      A documentary history of welfare policy in the U.S.

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      Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing, 3rd Edition

      Lee Staples

      The third edition of the manual for community organizers tells readers how to most effectively implement community action for social change, clearly laying out grassroots organizing principles, methods, and best…

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      Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing, 3rd Edition

      Lee Staples

      The third edition of the manual for community organizers tells readers how to most effectively implement community action for social change, clearly laying out grassroots organizing principles, methods, and best…

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      Welfare: A Documentary History Of U.S. Policy And Politics

      A documentary history of welfare policy in the U.S.

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      Poor Peoples Movements

      Frances Fox Piven,Richard A. Cloward

      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…

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      False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton

      In False Choices, an all-star lineup of feminists contests the simplistic reading of Hillary Clinton

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