Review: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
User Review - Ricky - GoodreadsAbsolutely vital to understanding the sober reality of the position of the American poor in politics. Read full review
Review: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
User Review - Thomas Simard - GoodreadsReading this book should change the way in which you look upon the poor and upon welfare programs. If I were a social scientist and had written this, I would feel very satisfied. A classic. Read full review
Review: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
User Review - Emily - GoodreadsConnects Britain's enclosure movement to the plantation ecomony of the US South and relevant to Off the Books. An essential read. "Compared to the more developed welfare states, [US relief] programs ... Read full review
Review: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
User Review - Micah - GoodreadsRegulating the Poor is the second book by Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward that I've read. (The first was Poor People's Movements.) Both books have left me with a completely new vision of ... Read full review
Review: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
User Review - Roger - GoodreadsTimeless. Given the current debate, no, hysteria, re immigration perhaps a sequel is (over) due. Read full review
Review: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
User Review - Steven Peterson - GoodreadsThis 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 ... Read full review
Review: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
User Review - Caroline - GoodreadsI read this book at ten years ago, and I still go back to it for quotations. Read full review
Review: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
User Review - John Cook - GoodreadsI read the original edition of this book in 1972, and it made a lasting impression. I recently learned of this revised edition and bought it immediately. Read full review
Review: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
User Review - Sarah - GoodreadsWhile a lot of this seems obvious to me now, I remember it being quite a revelatory book for me when I first read it. Read full review
Review: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
User Review - Rachel - GoodreadsI haven't read this in a looong time but it is an essential text in the field of sociology. It first came out in 1971 and the second edition was early 1990s. It explains pretty clearly the necessity of a welfare system and also some of the problems with various welfare plans. Read full review
