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Poor People's Movements 25 Years Later: Historical Context, Contemporary Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2004

Joseph Kling
Joseph Kling
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Teaches American politics and American political thought in the Government Department at St. Lawrence University ([email protected]). He has coedited two collections of essays on social movements, Dilemmas of Activism, with Prudence S. Posner, and Mobilizing the Community, with Robert Fisher.
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Abstract

Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. By Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. 381 pages.

Type
Symposium: Poor People's Movements
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 727 - 732
Copyright
© 2003 by the American Political Science Association

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