
Regulating the Poor
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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 death in 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.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction: To the Updated Edition
- Introduction
- One: Relief, Labor, and Civil Disorder: An Overview
- Problems of Controlling Labor by Market Incentives
- Civil Disorder and the Initiation or Expansion of Relief-Giving
- Restoring Order by Restoring Work
- Enforcing Low-Wage Work During Periods of stability
- Relief and the Political Process
- Part I - Relief and the Great Depression
- Two: Economic Collapse, Mass Unemployment, and the Rise of Disorder
- Mass Unemployment and the Persistence of Relief Restrictions
- Local Efforts to Cope with the Unemployed
- The Rise of Mass Disorder
- Disorder and Electoral Realignment
- The Expansion of Direct Relief
- Three: The New Deal and Relief
- From Direct Relief to Work Relief
- The Decline of Insurgency
- The "Reform" of Relief
- Part II - Relief and the Years of Stability: 1940-1960
- Four: Enforcing Low-Wage Work: Statutory Methods
- Excluding Workers
- Adapting Relief to Regional Economies
- Five: Enforcing Low-Wage Work: Administrative Methods
- Keeping People off the Rolls
- Underbudgeting Recipients
- Socializing the Able-Bodied Poor by Degrading Relief Recipients
- The Constancy of Relief Doctrine
- Part III - Relief and the Urban Crisis
- Six: The Welfare Explosion of the 1960's
- Some Dimensions of the Welfare Rise
- Some Explanations of the Welfare Rise
- Seven: Agricultural Modernization and Mass Unemployment
- Unemployment in Southern Agriculture
- The Persistence of Southern Relief Restrictions
- The Absence of Disorder in the Rural South
- Unemployment in the Cities
- The Persistence of Relief Restrictions in the Cities
- Eight: Migration and the Rise of Disorder in the Cities
- The Weakening of Social Control
- The Weakening of Legitimacy
- Local Responses to Disorder
- Nine: The Great Society and Relief: Federal Intervention
- The Electoral Repercussions of Migration and Disorder
- The Federal Strategy in the Cities
- Ten: The Great Society and Relief: Local Consequences
- Welfare Rights Services
- Welfare Rights Litigation
- Grass-Roots Protest: The National Welfare Rights Organization
- The Impact of the Welfare Rights Movement
- Part IV - Relief, Deindustrialization, and the War Against Labor: 1970-1990
- Eleven: Poor Relief and the Dramaturgy of Work
- The Turn to Labor Regulation
- The Reordered Class Structure
- The Role of Relief in Labor Regulation
- Justifying Labor Regulation
- Slashing Benefits
- Slashing Relief Rolls
- Poor Relief and Workfare Rituals
- Welfare-to-work Reforms
- Workfare Failures
- Workfare as Dramaturgy
- Pressures for Reform Intensify
- Twelve: Poor Relief and Theories of the Welfare State
- Social Security Versus Poor Relief
- Theories of Industrial Society
- Political Theories
- Underdevelopment and Race
- The "Democratic Class Struggle"
- Pluralist Interpretations
- State-Centered Interpretations
- Weak Parties and Working Class Politics in the United States
- The Welfare State Structures Welfare State Politics
- Protest and the Politics of Social Welfare
- Chapter 12 Appendix: Disruptive Protest and Relief Expansion: A Commentary on Recent Research
- The 1930S
- The 1960S
- Appendix Statistical Source Tables
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