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Organizing versus Mobilizing: Poor People's Movements after 25 Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2004

Fred Block
Fred Block
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Teaches sociology at the University of California at Davis (flblock@ucdavis.edu). His recent articles include “Karl Polanyi and the Writing of The Great Transformation” and “In the Shadow of Speenhamland: Social Policy and the Old Poor Law” (with Margaret Somers). He is grateful to the other participants in this symposium for their comments and suggestions.
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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. 733 - 735
Copyright
© 2003 by the American Political Science Association

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