Regulating the poor : the functions of public welfare / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward.

By: Piven, Frances Fox Contributor(s): Cloward, Richard A [joint author.]Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Vintage Books, c1971. Edition: Description: xvii, 389 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 0394717430; 0394460383; 9780394717432Subject(s): Public welfare -- United States | Public welfareDDC classification: 361.6 LOC classification: HV95 | .P57Online resources: WorldCat details

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TOC Relief, labor, and civil disorder: an overview -- Economic collapse, mass unemployment, and the rise of disorder -- New Deal and relief -- Enforcing low-wage work: statutory methods -- Enforcing low-wage work: administrative methods -- Welfare explosion of the 1960's -- Agricultural modernization and mass unemployment -- Migration and the rise of disorder in the cities -- Great Society and relief: federal intervention -- Great Society and relief: local consequences.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	361.6 PIR 1971 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		3842

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

TOC Relief, labor, and civil disorder: an overview --
Economic collapse, mass unemployment, and the rise of disorder --
New Deal and relief --
Enforcing low-wage work: statutory methods --
Enforcing low-wage work: administrative methods --
Welfare explosion of the 1960's --
Agricultural modernization and mass unemployment --
Migration and the rise of disorder in the cities --
Great Society and relief: federal intervention --
Great Society and relief: local consequences.

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