| Frances Fox Piven Born: 10-Oct-1932
Birthplace: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Activist, Sociologist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Regulating The Poor Husband: Herman Piven (div., one daughter)
Daughter: Sarah
Husband: Richard A. Cloward (d. 2001)
University: BA City Planning, University of Chicago (1953)
University: MA, University of Chicago (1956)
University: PhD, University of Chicago (1962)
Professor: School of Social Work, Columbia University (1966-72)
Professor: Political Science, Boston University (1972-82)
Professor: City University of New York (1982-)
American Civil Liberties Union Board of Directors
American Political Science Association
American Sociological Association President (2006-07)
Democratic Socialists of America Board of Directors
Human SERVE Co-Founder (1983)
National Welfare Rights Organization (1966)
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Naturalized US Citizen 1953
Russian Ancestry
Author of books:
Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (1971, sociology, with Richard Cloward)
The Politics of Turmoil: Essays on Poverty, Race and the Urban Crisis (1974, sociology, with Richard Cloward)
Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail (1977, sociology, with Richard Cloward)
The New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences (1982, sociology, with Richard Cloward)
The Mean Season (1987, sociology, with Richard Cloward)
Why Americans Don't Vote (1988, sociology, with Richard Cloward)
The Breaking of the American Social Compact (1997, sociology, with Richard Cloward)
The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism (2004)
Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (2006)
Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters (2009)
Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.
Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile
Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications
| 
