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The Success of Poor People's Movements: Empirical Tests and the More Elaborate Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2004

Joel Lefkowitz
Joel Lefkowitz
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Teaches political science at the State University of New York at New Paltz (lefkowij@newpaltz.edu). He is the author of “Students, Sweatshops, and Local Power” in From ACT-UP to the WTO and, with Christine Kelly, “Radical and Pragmatic: United Students Against Sweatshops” in Teamsters and Turtles? U.S. Progressive Political Movements in the 21st Century. He is grateful to Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward for their encouragement; to the Caucus for a New Political Science for sponsoring the APSA roundtable in which this symposium originated; to Lisa Burrell and Jennifer Hochschild; and to Fred Block, Margaret Groarke, Margaret Levi, David Meyer, Sandy Schram, and anonymous reviewers for critical comments on an earlier draft.
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Abstract

Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. By Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. 381 pages.

Type
Symposium: Poor People's Movements
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 721 - 726
Copyright
© 2003 by the American Political Science Association

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