Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward analyse the movement of industrial workers and the role of the unions following the great depression, from… The unemployed workers’ movement - Frances Fox Piven ...

In 1971, Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward wrote Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, a definitive study of welfare policies in the United States. Their radical approach cast ...

Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her scholarship and activism have centered on social movements, ...