Social Amelioration through Mass Insurgency? A Reexamination of the Piven and Cloward Thesis
1979 ◽
Vol 73
(4)
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pp. 1003-1011
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Keyword(s):
Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward (1971, 1977) have argued that mass insurgency in the United States, occurring especially between 1964 and 1969, produced a series of responses by government, one of the most significant being massive expansion of welfare rolls. Using data on which they base their claim, this study examines the hypothesis that there is a positive association between social disorders and welfare caseload increases. The conclusion is that associations specified by Piven and Cloward are not supported by the data and a plausible rival hypothesis is offered to explain the massive increases in welfare caseloads.
2020 ◽
Vol 6
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pp. 237802311989954
2018 ◽
Vol 4
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pp. 237802311879595
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2021 ◽
Vol 18
(6)
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pp. 2921
2017 ◽
Vol 31
(4)
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pp. 419-432
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