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Frances Fox Piven

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October 10, 1932

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Frances Fox Piven is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982. Piven is known equally for her contributions to social theory and for her social activism.

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Average rating: 4.06 · 1,241 ratings · 143 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors

	Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail by Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward 4.12 avg rating — 538 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward 4.24 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 1971 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America 3.74 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way by Frances Fox Piven, Joshua Cohen (Editor) 3.68 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Class War by Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward 3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters by Frances Fox Piven, Lorraine C. Minnite, Margaret Groarke 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?: The Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate 3.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Breaking of the American Social Compact by Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Welfare: A Documentary History Of U.S. Policy And Politics by Frances Fox Piven (Foreword), Gwendolyn Mink (Editor), Rickie Solinger (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For a protest movement to arise out of traumas of daily life, the social arrangements that are ordinarily perceived as just and immutable must come to seem both unjust and mutable.”
― Frances Fox Piven, Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail

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“What some call superstructure, and what others call culture,”
― Frances Fox Piven, Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail

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“Briefly stated, the main argument of this chapter is that protest is also not a matter of free choice; it is not freely available to all groups at all times, and much of the time it is not available to lower-class groups at all.”
― Frances Fox Piven, Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail

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