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Oops, here is an article we missed in January. Thanks grey_whiskers.

(Vanity) Cloward-Piven and the Markets, or "He Played on Our Fears! He BETRAYED This Country!"

Pinging because it is relevant to the markets, and to our economy.

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Richard Andrew Cloward

1926-2001

Nationality: American

Entry Updated : 08/09/2002

Entry Updated : 08/09/2002

Place of Birth: Rochester, NY

Award(s):

Dennis Carroll Award from International Society of Criminology, 1965, for Delinquency and Opportunity; C. Wright Mills Award from Society for Study of Social Problems, 1971, for Regulating the Poor.

Table of Contents:

Personal Information
Career
Writings
Obituary
Obituary Sources

Personal Information: Family: Born December 25, 1926, in Rochester, NY; died of lung cancer in August 2001, in New York, NY; son of Donald B. and Esther Marie (Fleming) Cloward; married Ethelmarie McGaffin, March 25, 1951 (divorced, 1978); children: Leslie Anne, Mark, Kevin, Keith. Education: University of Rochester, B.A., 1949; Columbia University, M.S.W., 1950, Ph.D., 1958. Memberships: American Association of University Professors, American Sociology Association, American Association of Social Workers, New York Civil Liberties Union (member of board of directors, beginning 1958), Poverty/Rights Action Center (member of board of directors, beginning 1966).


Career: Columbia University, New York, NY, assistant professor, 1954-58, associate professor, 1958-62, professor of social work, beginning 1962. Military service: U.S. Navy, 1944-46. U.S. Army, 1951-54; became lieutenant.

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:

• (Coeditor with Herman D. Stein) Social Perspectives on Behavior: A Reader on Social Science for Social Work and Related Professions, Free Press, 1958.

• (With Lloyd E. Ohlin) Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs, Free Press, 1960.

• (With others) Theoretical Studies in Social Organizations of the Prison, Social Science Research Council, 1960.

• (With Frances Fox Piven) Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, Pantheon, 1971.

• The Politics of Turmoil: Essays on Poverty, Race, and the Urban Crisis, Pantheon, 1974.

• (With Frances Fox Piven) Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, Pantheon, 1977.

• (With Frances Fox Piven) The New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences, Pantheon, 1982.

• (With Frances Fox Piven) Why Americans Don't Vote, Pantheon, 1988.

• (With Frances Fox Piven) Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way, Beacon Press, 2000.

Contributor to New Republic, Nation, Saturday Review, Transaction, and other journals in his field.
Obituary Notice:
--Born December 25, 1926, in Rochester, NY; died of lung cancer August 20 (some sources cite August 19), 2001, in New York, NY. Sociologist, educator, and author. Cloward is remembered as an advocate for the poor and the disenfranchised. He taught social work at Columbia University from 1954 until his death; he also wrote books that explained his outspoken views and he worked actively as a proponent for welfare reform. Early in his career he wrote Delinquency and Opportunity, in which he claimed that inner-city juvenile delinquency was a rational response to the lack of economic potential available to poor urban youth. He then created the Mobilization for Youth to work with urban gang members. His best-known volume may be Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, in which he and his wife, Frances Fox Piven, claimed that the welfare state as it existed in 1971 provided the government with a powerful tool whereby it increased welfare funding in hard economic times to control social unrest among the poor and decreased funding in more prosperous times to maintain a pool of low-paid laborers. The work earned its authors a C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, but it also sparked controversy at several levels. Cloward remained active in grassroots efforts to aid the poor, creating the National Welfare Rights Organization in 1966 and the national voter registration reform group Human SERVE in 1982; he was a strong advocate for the so-called "Motor Voter Act" of 1993 which encouraged mass voter registration, especially among the poor. For his efforts he received lifetime achievement awards from both the National Association of Social Workers and the American Sociological Association. Among Cloward's other books are The Politics of Turmoil, Poor People's Movements, and Why People Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way.

Obituary and Other Sources:

PERIODICALS

• Los Angeles Times, August 25, 2001, Elaine Woo, "Richard A. Cloward; Sociologist Fought for Welfare, Voter Rights, " p. B17.
• Miami Herald, August 24, 2001, "Richard A. Cloward, Sociologist, Welfare-Rights Activist."
• Nation, September 3, 2001, "Nation Notes."
• New York Times, August 25, 2001, Stephanie Flanders, "Richard Cloward, " p. A19.

Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2004.

Gale Database: Contemporary Authors

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Frances Fox Piven

1932-

Nationality: Canadian

Entry Updated : 06/03/2001

Place of Birth: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Award(s):

Ford Foundation study grant, 1968-69; C. Wright Mills Award of Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1971, for Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare; Metropolitan Applied Research Corp. fellowship, 1971; Guggenheim fellowship, 1973-74.

Table of Contents:

Personal Information
Career
Writings
Works in Progress

Personal Information: Family: Born October 10, 1932, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; daughter of Albert and Rachel (Paperny) Fox; children: Sarah. Education: University of Chicago, B.A., 1953, M.A., 1956, Ph.D., 1962. Memberships: Society for the Study of Social Problems, American Political Science Association, Caucus for a New Political Science, Union of Radical Political Economists, Planners for Equal Opportunity (president, 1971-73), American Civil Liberties Union (member of board, 1973--). Addresses: Home: 35 Claremont Ave., New York, N.Y. 10027. Office: Department of Political Science, Boston University, Boston, Mass. 02215.


Career: Free Press, Glencoe, Ill., assistant editor, 1953-54; Voorhees, Walker, Smith & Smith, New York, N.Y., assistant in preparation of rezoning proposal for New York City Planning Commission, 1956-58; Columbia University, New York, N.Y., research fellow, Metropolitan Region Program, 1958-60, research associate, School of Social Work, 1962-66, assistant professor, School of Social Work, 1966-68, associate professor, 1968-72; Boston University, Boston, Mass., professor of political science, 1972--. Lecturer at Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1966-67. Consultant to Mobilization for Youth, Inc., 1962-67, National Welfare Rights Organization, 1966-72, and other agencies; member of Metropolitan Council on Housing.

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:

• (With Richard A. Cloward) Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, Pantheon, 1971.

• (With Cloward) Politics of Turmoil: Race, Poverty, and the Urban Crisis, Pantheon, 1974.

• (With Richard A. Cloward) Why Americans Don't Vote, Pantheon Books (New York City), 1988.

• (Co-author with Richard A. Cloward) The Breaking of the American Social Compact, New Press, 1998.

Contributor:

• Murray Silberman, editor, The Role of Government in Promoting Social Change, Columbia University Press, 1966.

• Personnel in Anti-Poverty Programs: Implications for Social Work Education, Council on Social Work Education (New York), 1967.

• George Brager and Francis Purcell, editors, Community Action against Poverty, College & University Press, 1967.

• Mathew Ahmanad and Margaret Roach, editors, The Church and the Urban Crisis, National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, 1967.

• R. H. Connery, editor, Urban Riots: Violence and Social Change, Random House, 1969.

• Robert Paul Wolff, editor, 1984 Revisited, Random House, 1972.

• Wil J. Smith and Frederick A. Zeller, editors, Public Welfare, Right or Privilege: A System under Attack, West Virginia University Press, 1972.

• Herbert G. Gutman and Gregory S. Kealey, editors, Many Pasts: Readings in American Social History, 1965 to the Present, Prentice-Hall, 1973.

• (Editor), Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies, Polity Press (Cambridge, UK), 1991.

Contributor to Nation, New Republic, Commonweal, Social Work, Transaction, and other periodicals; a number of the articles have been reprinted in anthologies, readings, and other books. Member of editorial and publications committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1973--; member of editorial board, Civil Liberties Review, Social Policy, and Working Papers for a New Society.

Works in Progress:With Richard A. Cloward, Poor Peoples' Movements and Why They Fail, for Pantheon.


Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002.

Gale Database: Contemporary Authors

This is likely the REAL reason Obama doesn't want us to see his Columbia school records. I'm sure his classes dealt directly with Socialist and Marxist studies.