Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
by Frances Fox Piven & Richard Cloward, 1979
"…enormously instructive."
— E.J. Hobsbawm, New York Review of Books
"This beautifully written book is the most exciting and important political study in years."
— S. M. Miller, Department of Sociology, Boston University.
"Of the first importance; it is bound to have a wide and various influence; and it is disturbing."
— Jack Beatty, The Nation