Who's afraid of Frances Fox Piven? : the essential writings of the professor Glenn Beck loves to hate / Frances Fox Piven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piven, Frances Fox.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Political activity--United States.

Working class.

Welfare rights movement--United States.

Welfare rights movement.

Voting--United States.

Voting.

Piven, Frances Fox.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The sociologist and political scientist Frances Fox Piven and her late husband Richard Cloward have been famously credited by Glenn Beck with devising the ?Cloward/Piven Strategy," a world view responsible, according to Beck, for everything from creating a ?culture of poverty" and fomenting ?violent revolution" to causing global warming and the recent financial crisis. Called an ?enemy of the people," over the past year Piven has been subjected to an unprecedented campaign of hatred and disinformation, spearheaded by Beck.How is it that a distinguished university professor, past p

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 Low-Income People and the Political Process; 2 The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty; 3 Economic Collapse, Mass Unemployment, and the Rise of Disorder; 4 The Structuring of Protest; 5 The Welfare Rights Movement; 6 Toward a Class-Based Realignment of American Politics: A Movement Strategy; 7 Does Voting Matter?; 8 The Nature of Disruptive Power; 9 Obama Needs a Protest Movement; 10 Mobilizing the Jobless; Epilogue; Afterword; Permissions; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781595587541

1595587543

OCLC:

798535313