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  <title><![CDATA[Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail]]></title>
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  <default_description>Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America:&lt;br&gt;-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America&lt;br&gt;-- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO&lt;br&gt;-- The Southern Civil Rights Movement&lt;br&gt;-- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1977</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail</original_title>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[absolutely brilliant account of social movements, social theory, and how politics plays its part - looking at how people try to affect the system from the outside. her assessment of power is smart, clear, and well-written, and she never shies from saying that as citizens we should be doing more. piv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3636371">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written by veterans of the welfare rights movement, this book analyzes four mass movements in U.S. history in the 1930's and 1960's and draws interesting conclusions about the reasons behind their successes and failures. I don't agree with all the conclusions, but it's definitely food for thought, e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7446698">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall clasic that every organizer should read. I'm looking forward to Piven's new book &quot;Challenging Authority.&quot; Here's a blog I wrote on it: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://machete408.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/reflection-on-poor-peoples-movements-and-review-on-pivens-latest-challenging-authority/" title="http://machete408.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/reflection-on-poor-peoples-movements-and-review-on-pivens-latest-challenging-authority/">http://machete408.wordpress.com/2008/01/...</a><br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This text is amazing. Surprisingly radical--- its a marxist based analysis of social movements.....very pragmatic with historical examples and extremely well synthesized theories of how political movements succeed/fail]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an informed smack in the face from the world of social science to the face of a wide-eyed liberal arts/american studies major.  But the pain felt very nice.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting read.  Probably the only people (that I am aware of) to suggest that the civil rights movement could possibly be considered a failure, in one respect.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another recommendation from Mr. Wildchild. In depth study of political movements, how they come together and why so many have not achieved a lasting impact.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really interesting theoretical perspective on social change (pretty deterministic), with great case studies of movements.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Movements against injustice are unstable if they are not involved in policy making and legislation.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very materialist study of why certain movements succeed and fail]]></body>
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