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Regulating the poor : the functions of public welfare / Frances Fox Piven & Richard A. Cloward.
- Title
- Regulating the poor : the functions of public welfare / Frances Fox Piven & Richard A. Cloward.
- Author
- Piven, Frances Fox
- Publication
- New York : Vintage Books 1972.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HV95 .P57 1972x | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Cloward, Richard A.
- Description
- xvii, 389 p.; 19 cm.
- Subject
- Public welfare > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0394717430
- OCLC
- 1243761271
- SCSB-10429269
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library