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The Praxis of Poor People's Movements: Strategy and Theory in Dissensus Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2004

Sanford F. Schram
Sanford F. Schram
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Teaches social policy and social theory in the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College (sschram@brynmawr.edu). He is the author of Praxis for the Poor and After Welfare, as well as Words of Welfare, which won the Michael Harrington Award in 1996 from the American Political Science Association. Schram extends thanks to Jennifer Hochschild, Joel Lefkowitz, Joe Soss, Roni Strier, and anonymous reviewers for providing helpful comments on an earlier version of this article.
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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. 715 - 720
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© 2003 by the American Political Science Association

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