Theory & Philosophy Reading Group: Frances Fox Piven and Richard Clower

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For the next year of the Theory and Philosophy Reading Group at Old Capitol Books, in collaboration with the Direct Action Monterey Network, we'll continue our study of Marxist-Feminist thought. This evening, we'll discuss sections from Poor People's Movements by Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward.

Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? In Poor People's Movement, the authors of 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.

Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate School, City University of New York. She is coeditor of Work, Welfare and Politics. Her other award-winning books co-written with Cloward include Regulating the Poor, and Why Americans Don’t Vote.

Richard Andrew Cloward was an activist and sociology, who was influential in the “Strain Theory” of criminal behavior. He taught at Columbia University for almost fifty years. Other than the book co-authored with Piven, Cloward wrote The Breaking of the American Social Compact. He died in 2001.

Event Details

Oct
28
2016
Starts at:
7:00pm
482 Alvarado St
Monterey, CA 93940
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