Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward

Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare

Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward

544 pages • first pub 1993 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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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 th...

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