BECK (voice-over): The Cloward-Piven strategy in a nutshell. Left-wing radicals Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven advance their strategy to end poverty in a May 2, 1966 article in The Nation.

I was saddened to read about the death of Richard Cloward on August 23. Cloward, along with his wife, Francis Fox Piven, not only wrote some excellent books about poor peoples' struggles, but they ...

In 1966 Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven wrote the Nation article: "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty." Forty-four years later, the Cloward-Piven strategy has come full circle.

As I explained in my book “How We Got Here,” the husband and wife team of Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven created the impetus for the modern American welfare state with a 1966 article in ...

A point of order. I have written, often, that Columbia social work professors Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward (who were married) wreaked havoc on poor black communities in the sixties by ...

Richard Cloward Poor people's movements: why they succeed, how they fail - Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward Examinations of four different periods of struggles in the US, from the depression… ...

As the United States heads into another recession and labor organizing is surging, we speak with leading sociologist and longtime social movement scholar Frances Fox Piven as she turns 90 years old.

Piven and late husband Richard Cloward are famous for their 1966 article in The Nation that proposed organizing the poor to pressure the federal government. Peter Dreier, ...

And a couple were especially incensed by the role that Richard Cloward and I had played in the movements of welfare recipients and the black freedom movement.