The Breaking of the American Social Compact
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Book Overview
In this text, social critics Francis Fox Piven and Richard Cloward address the tumultuous politics of the 1970s, 80s and 90s that have culminated in an all-out assault on the American social compact. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1565844769
ISBN13:9781565844766
Release Date:September 1998
Publisher:New Press
Length:464 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.6" x 8.8"
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Falling deeper into the political rabbit hole.
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Great book discussing the effects of globalization upon the working class in American society. Piven and Cloward effectively discuss the weakening of the working class, the disproportional influence of businesses, corporations, and other capital-holders upon the governing process, the attack upon welfare relief programs, the impacts of poor people's political movements. Piven and Cloward assert that the business class is weakening the civil rights and attacking the relief programs that protect the poor by fueling popular myths about such recipients.
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