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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 the U.S. welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to shape the debate within current and future administrations as they attempt to rethink the welfare system and its role in American society.

"Uncompromising and provocative. . . . By mixing history, political interpretation and sociological analysis, Piven and Cloward provide the best explanation to date of our present situation . . . no future discussion of welfare can afford to ignore them."
-Peter Steinfels, The New York Times Book Review

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• 1 Relief, Labor, and Civil Disorder: An Overview
• Part I Relief and the Great Depression
• 2 Economic Collapse, Mass Unemployment, and the Rise of Disorder
• 3 The New Deal and Relief
• Part II Relief and the Years of Stability: 1940-1960
• 4 Enforcing Low-Wage Work: Statutory Methods
• 5 Enforcing Low Wage Work: Administrative Methods
• Part III Relief and the Urban Crisis
• 6 The Welfare Explosion of the 1960s
• 7 Agricultural Modernization and Mass Unemployment
• 8 Migration and the Rise of Disorder in the Cities
• 9 The Great Society and Relief: Federal Intervention
• 10 The Great Society: Local Consequences
• Part IV Relief, Deindustrialization, and the War Against Labor: 1970-1990
• 11 Poor Relief and the Dramaturgy of Work
• 12 Poor Relief and Theories of the Welfare State

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Originally published in 1971, this social science classic outlines the social functions of welfare programs. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York.

Richard A. Cloward was a social worker and sociologist, and was a faculty member at the Columbia University School of Social Work from 1954 until his deathin 2001.

They co-authored: The Politics of Turmoil , Poor People's Movements , The New Class War , and Why Americans Don't Vote . They won the C. Wright Mills Award and various international and national awards.