{"product_id":"regulating-the-poor-the-functions-of-public-welfare-9780679745167","title":"Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Peter Steinfels, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey co-authored: \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Turmoil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoor People's Movements\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Class War\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhy Americans Don't Vote\u003c\/i\u003e. They won the C. Wright Mills Award and various international and national awards.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327025484050,"sku":"9780679745167","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7be07e0d-79b3-474c-999c-e17defce8cc7.jpg?v=1727708434","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/regulating-the-poor-the-functions-of-public-welfare-9780679745167","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}