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Crossing the Ocean and Back Again with Piven and Cloward

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2004

Sidney Tarrow
Sidney Tarrow
Affiliation:
Professor of Government at Cornell University (Sgt2@cornell.edu). His research interests span three fields: social movements and parties, local and regional politics, and European and transnational politics. His most recent single-authored book is Power in Movement. With collaborators Charles Tilly and Doug McAdam, he has written Dynamics of Contention, and with Doug Imig, Contentious Europeans. For comments on earlier versions of this essay, Tarrow thanks Antonina Gentile, Charles Tilly, Frances Fox Piven, and two anonymous reviewers.
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Abstract

Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. By Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. 381 pages.

Type
Symposium: Poor People's Movements
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 711 - 714
Copyright
© 2003 by the American Political Science Association

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