About the Author

France Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York.

Richard A. Cloward was a social worker and sociologist, and was afaculty member at the Columbia University School of Social Work from 1954 until his deathin 2001.

They co-authored-The Politics of Turmoil,Poor People's Movements,The New Class War, andWhy Americans Don't Vote. They won the C. Wright Mills Award and various international and national awards.

Reviews

"...enormously instructive."

-- E.J. Hobsbawm, New York Review of Books

"This beautifully written book is the most exciting and important political study in years."

-- S. M. Miller, Department of Sociology, Boston University.

"Of the first importance; it is bound to have a wide and various influence; and it is disturbing."

-- Jack Beatty, The Nation