Richard Cloward: 3 books
Regulating the Poor
The Functions of Public Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
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
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
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...
Delinquency and Opportunity
A Study of Delinquent Gangs
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.