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 ...
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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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This book is quoted in every sociology textbook. It was one of the first books in its field. Certainly is is the one which has the most honest exposition of how poor people are treated in America, and it reviews the historical precedents by which policy decisions are still being made. I gave one copy of this book to my county commissioner, and one to my U.S. Congresswoman.
In it, the authors preview their next book, Poor People's Movements, to which, by the way, I tried to give five stars, only this funky website wouldn't allow me. Both books are absolutely essential to the serious student of sociology
