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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 361.973 EAN: 9780679745167 Edition: 2 Upd Sub ISBN: 0679745165 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 544 Publication Date: September 28, 1993 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: September 28, 1993 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A genuine classic on public welfare and its functionsThis book by Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward came out over three decades ago. And it is still powerful reading and powerful analysis. I would not expect everyone to agree with the authors' contentions, but once having read this book, you will be challenged in your understanding of welfare policy. Indeed, both many liberals and many conservatives alike are apt to be irritated by this book. In short, the key point the authors make is that welfare policies are designed to pacify ... Read More Rating: - No Flies On FrankA widespread view today identifies the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as responsible for creating a permanent welfare state in America. Priven and Cloward demonstrate that FDR's social programs created to assist the poor were part of a long line of programs that in fact exercised social control of the chronically poor and the destitute, and that each one has maintained this stratum of society as a constant in an otherwise economically sound society. The authors look back to Colonial times ... Read More Rating:  - Welfare as a Government Tool of Controli can pretty much guarantee that after reading this book, one will never quite look at welfare in the same way as before. The main premise of this book is that government provides aid for the poor to control political unrest and to control labor. The book starts off by tracing the history and development of welfare in western civilization. Prior to the early 16th century, caring for the poor was considered to be primarily the responsibility of the church or of those of the more prosperous ... Read More Rating: - A revealing examination of an insidious systemAuthors Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven blew the cover off the public welfare system with this book over thirty years ago. I have yet to read any satisfactory rebuttal to their theory over the intervening decades. How best to keep the poor poor? How best to placate them? How best to control the labor pool of American society? Not with riot gear and tear gas (although we haven't been above using that). The best way is with money. Just a little, of course. As the title suggests, the welfare ... Read More Rating: - For anyone who is not afraid of the REAL TRUTH about WelfareWhen I first read this book several years ago, it was like learning that there's no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. It completely shook my sense of social and political reality. It is a completely fact-based, objective, and unbelievably insightful explanation for the economic, and therefore social, realities of this country. It was a true epiphany. Everything finally made sense as the layers of years of schooling and media indoctrination melted away, and the truth about what's really going on in this ... Read More 
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