Francis Fox Piven, a celebrated political thinker and activist, offers a concise introduction to her award-winning writings on imperialism, voting and poverty as it relates to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Piven offers a clear historical context to the current struggles around economic disparity, poverty and imperialism and relates them to the labour, civil rights and anti-imperialist struggles of the Depression era. Through examining the past, Piven presents the immense future possibilities of the Occupy Movement.
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Weight: 48g
Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
Publication Date: 17 Jul 2012
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781608462162
About Frances Fox Piven
Frances Fox Piven is the past Vice-President of the American Political Science Association has served as program co-chair of the annual political science meetings and is a past president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She is currently President of the American Sociological Association. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the President's Award of the American Public Health Association and the American Sociological Association's Career Award for the Practice of Sociology as well as their award for the Public Understanding of Sociology. She is the author of the bestselling Poor People's Movements Regulating the Poor and Why Americans Don't Vote (with the late Richard A. Cloward) as well as The War At Home Keeping Down the Black Vote and many other books.
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