Poor People S Movements

Author : Frances Fox Piven,Richard Cloward
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307814678

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Poor People's Movements by Frances Fox Piven,Richard Cloward Pdf

Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America: -- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America -- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO -- The Southern Civil Rights Movement -- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization.

Author : Isaac William Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199389995

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Rich People's Movements by Isaac William Martin Pdf

On tax day, April 15, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets with signs demanding lower taxes on the richest one percent. But why? Rich people have plenty of political influence. Why would they need to publicly demonstrate for lower taxes-and why would anyone who wasn't rich join the protest on their behalf? Isaac William Martin shows that such protests long predate the Tea Party of our own time. Ever since the Sixteenth Amendment introduced a Federal income tax in 1913, rich Americans have protested new public policies that they thought would threaten their wealth. But while historians have taught us much about the conservative social movements that reshaped the Republican Party in the late 20th century, the story of protest movements explicitly designed to benefit the wealthy is still little known. Rich People's Movements is the first book to tell that story, tracking a series of protest movements that arose to challenge an expanding welfare state and progressive taxation. Drawing from a mix of anti-progressive ideas, the leaders of these movements organized scattered local constituencies into effective campaigns in the 1920s, 1950s, 1980s, and our own era. Martin shows how protesters on behalf of the rich appropriated the tactics used by the Left-from the Populists and Progressives of the early twentieth century to the feminists and anti-war activists of the 1950s and 1960s. He explores why the wealthy sometimes cut secret back-room deals and at other times protest in the public square. He also explains why people who are not rich have so often rallied to their cause. For anyone wanting to understand the anti-tax activists of today, including notable defenders of wealth inequality like the Koch brothers, the historical account in Rich People's Movements is an essential guide.

Author : Asef Bayat
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231108591

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Street Politics by Asef Bayat Pdf

The story of a grassroots political movement that flourished throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Author : Bryan D. Palmer,Gaétan Héroux
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771132824

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Toronto's Poor by Bryan D. Palmer,Gaétan Héroux Pdf

Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how people without housing, people living in poverty, and unemployed people have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present. Written by a historian of the working class and a poor people’s activist, this is a rebellious book that links past and present in an almost two-hundred year story of struggle and resistance. It is about men, women, and children relegated to lives of desperation by an uncaring system, and how they have refused to be defeated. In that refusal, and in winning better conditions for themselves, Toronto’s poor create the possibility of a new kind of society, one ordered not by acquisition and individual advance, but by appreciations of collective rights and responsibilities.

Author : Ananya Roy,Emma Shaw Crane
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820348421

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Territories of Poverty by Ananya Roy,Emma Shaw Crane Pdf

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people’s movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized. In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty—whether by globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile money or philanthrocapitalist foundations—as multiple terrains of struggle for justice and social transformation.

Author : Stephen Pimpare
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595586964

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A People s History of Poverty in America by Stephen Pimpare Pdf

In this compulsively readable social history, political scientist Stephen Pimpare vividly describes poverty from the perspective of poor and welfare-reliant Americans from the big city to the rural countryside. He focuses on how the poor have created community, secured shelter, and found food and illuminates their battles for dignity and respect. Through prodigious archival research and lucid analysis, Pimpare details the ways in which charity and aid for the poor have been inseparable, more often than not, from the scorn and disapproval of those who would help them. In the rich and often surprising historical testimonies he has collected from the poor in America, Pimpare overturns any simple conclusions about how the poor see themselves or what it feels like to be poor—and he shows clearly that the poor are all too often aware that charity comes with a price. It is that price that Pimpare eloquently questions in this book, reminding us through powerful anecdotes, some heart-wrenching and some surprisingly humorous, that poverty is not simply a moral failure.

Author : Frances Fox Piven
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781595587541

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Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven? by Frances Fox Piven Pdf

The sociologist and political scientist Frances Fox Piven and her late husband Richard Cloward have been famously credited by Glenn Beck with devising the “Cloward/Piven Strategy,” a world view responsible, according to Beck, for everything from creating a “culture of poverty” and fomenting “violent revolution” to causing global warming and the recent financial crisis. Called an “enemy of the people,” over the past year Piven has been subjected to an unprecedented campaign of hatred and disinformation, spearheaded by Beck. How is it that a distinguished university professor, past president of the American Sociological Association, and recipient of numerous awards and accolades for her work on behalf of the poor and for American voting rights, has attracted so much negative attention? For anyone who is skeptical of the World According to Beck, here is a guide to the ideas that Glenn fears most. Who’s Afraid of Frances Fox Piven? is a concise, accessible introduction to Piven’s actual thinking (versus Beck’s outrageous claims), from her early work on welfare rights and “poor people’s movements,” written with her late husband Richard Cloward, through her influential examination of American voting habits, and her most recent work on the possibilities for a new movement for progressive reform. A major corrective to right-wing bombast, this essential book is also a rich source of ideas and inspiration for anyone interested in progressive change.

Author : Frances Fax Piven
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742563407

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Challenging Authority by Frances Fax Piven Pdf

Argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope, and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, they disrupt the workings of important institutions and become a force in American politics. Drawing on critical episodes in U.S. history, Piven shows that it is in fact precisely at those seismic moments when people act outside of political norms that they become empowered to their full democratic potential.

Author : Lisa Levenstein
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807832721

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A Movement Without Marches by Lisa Levenstein Pdf

In this bold interpretation of U.S. history, Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that led to the postwar urban crisis. A Movement Withou

Author : Gordon K. Mantler
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469608068

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Power to the Poor by Gordon K. Mantler Pdf

The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King's unfinished crusade became the era's most high-profile attempt at multiracial collaboration and sheds light on the interdependent relationship between racial identity and political coalition among African Americans and Mexican Americans. Mantler argues that while the fight against poverty held great potential for black-brown cooperation, such efforts also exposed the complex dynamics between the nation's two largest minority groups. Drawing on oral histories, archives, periodicals, and FBI surveillance files, Mantler paints a rich portrait of the campaign and the larger antipoverty work from which it emerged, including the labor activism of Cesar Chavez, opposition of Black and Chicano Power to state violence in Chicago and Denver, and advocacy for Mexican American land-grant rights in New Mexico. Ultimately, Mantler challenges readers to rethink the multiracial history of the long civil rights movement and the difficulty of sustaining political coalitions.

Author : Donatella della Porta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319717524

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Solidarity Mobilizations in the ‘Refugee Crisis’ by Donatella della Porta Pdf

This edited collection introduces conceptual innovations that critically engage with understanding refugee movements as part of the broader category of ‘poor people’s movements’. The empirical focus of the work lies on the protest events related to the so-called ‘long summer of migration’ of 2015. It traces the route followed by the migrants from the places of first arrival to the places of passage and on to the places of destination. Through qualitative and quantitative data, the authors map, within a cross-national comparative perspective, the wide set of actions and initiatives that are being created in solidarity with refugees who have made their journey seeking asylum to the European Union, either travelling across the Mediterranean Sea or through South Eastern Europe. It explores these cases from the perspective of social movement studies alongside critical studies on migration and citizenship.

Author : Frances Fox Piven,Richard A. Cloward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:1194618812

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From Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail by Frances Fox Piven,Richard A. Cloward Pdf

Author : David Brady,Linda Burton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 937 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199914050

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The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty by David Brady,Linda Burton Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to provide diverse perspectives on the issue.

Author : Monique Deveaux
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190850289

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Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements by Monique Deveaux Pdf

"Poor-led social movements work to transform the structures that exclude and exploit people who live in poverty, and know that durable poverty reduction ultimately depends upon the political empowerment of the poor. Yet the knowledge and contributions of these movements have been largely neglected by philosophical analyses of severe poverty, which focus instead on the obligations of individuals and institutions in affluent states. The erasure of people living in poverty as central agents of justice puts philosophers out of step with progressive, pro-poor approaches to poverty and development. From rural landless workers in Brazil, to urban shack dwellers in South Africa, to unemployed workers impoverished by neoliberal economic policies in Argentina, poor-led organizations and movements advance a more political understanding of poverty - and of what is needed to eradicate it. This book shows how these groups develop the political consciousness and collective capabilities of poor communities, and help to create the basis for solidarity among poor populations. Defending the idea of a political responsibility for solidarity, Deveaux shows how nonpoor outsiders can also help to advance a transformative anti-poverty agenda by supporting the efforts of these movements"--

Author : Michael T. Heaney,Fabio Rojas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107085404

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Party in the Street by Michael T. Heaney,Fabio Rojas Pdf

Party in the Street explores the interaction between political parties and social movements in the United States. Examining the collapse of the post-9/11 antiwar movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this book focuses on activism and protest in the United States. It argues that the electoral success of the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama, as well as antipathy toward President George W. Bush, played a greater role in this collapse than did changes in foreign policy. It shows that how people identify with social movements and political parties matters a great deal, and it considers the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street as comparison cases.