Regulating the Poor
The Functions of Public Welfare
Published on 8. February 2012
544 pages
978-0-307-81464-7 (ISBN)
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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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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 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.
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
