Archive for February 2021
Poor People’s Movements – Additional Readings
I am currently in the middle of multiple reading groups of Piven and Cloward’s Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. Here are some suggested readings to follow up on that.This is not meant to be comprehensive. Suggestions welcome in the comments.
More Piven and Cloward
Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
Why Americans Still Don’t Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
“Disruptive Dissensus – People and Power in the Industrial Age” by Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven
Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America by Frances Fox Piven
Great Depression
Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D.G. Kelley
Labor
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey
“The Barren Marriage of American Labour and the Democratic Party” by Mike Davis
Civil Rights Movement
I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles M. Payne
Welfare Rights Movement
Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States by Premilla Nadasen
Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty by Annelise Orleck
Written by David Kaib
February 13, 2021 at 1:27 pm
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Tagged with Frances Fox Piven, political education, Poor Pepole's Movements, Richard Cloward, social movements