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Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. In 2006-2007 she served as the President of the American Sociological Association. She was married to Richard Cloward until his death 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)
  • Poor People's Movements: Why the Succeed, How they Fail (Pantheon, 1977)
  • Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (Pantheon, 1971)