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| Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, ]. | Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, ]. | ||
| She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1962. In 2006-2007 she served as the President of the ]. She was married to ] |
She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1962. In 2006-2007 she served as the President of the ]. She was married to her long-time collaborator, ], who died in 2001. | ||
| == Bibliography == | == Bibliography == | ||
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Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1962. In 2006-2007 she served as the President of the American Sociological Association. She was married to her long-time collaborator, Richard Cloward, who died in 2001.
Bibliography
- Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006)
- The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism (New Press, 2004)
- Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies (Oxford University Press, 1992)
With Richard Cloward:
- Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want it That Way (Beacon, 2000)
- The Breaking of the American Social Compact (New Press, 1997)
- Why Americans Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want it That Way (Beacon, 1988)
- New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences (Pantheon, 1982)
- Poor People's Movements: Why the Succeed, How they Fail (Pantheon, 1977)
- Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (Pantheon, 1971)
Honors and Awards
She has been honored with the the American Sociological Association Career Award for the Practice of Sociology (2000), the Mary Lepper Award of the Womens' Caucus of the American Political Science Association (1998); the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociology Association; the Tides Foundation Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy (1995); the Annual Award of the National Association of Secretaries of State (1994); President's Award of the American Public Health Association (1993), Lee/Founders Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems; the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Prize; and the C. Wright Mills Award. (http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Sociology/faculty/)
External Links
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Sociology/faculty/piven.html
http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss52_bioghist.html
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