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Regulating the poor : the functions of public welfare / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Piven, Frances Fox.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 524 pages.)
- Edition:
- Updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Relief, labor, and civil disorder: an overview
- Economic collapse, mass unemployment, and the rise of disorder
- New Deal and relief
- Enforcing low-wage work: statutory methods
- Enforcing low-wage work: administrative methods
- Welfare explosion of the 1960's
- Agricultural modernization and mass unemployment
- Migration and the rise of disorder in the cities
- Great Society and relief: federal intervention
- Great Society and relief: local consequences
- Poor relief and the dramaturgy of work
- Poor relief and theories of the welfare state.
- Notes:
- "Second Vintage edition"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Piven, Frances Fox. Regulating the poor.
- ISBN:
- 9780307814647
- 0307814645
- Publisher Number:
- 99988215049
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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