POUTICAL SCIENCE/SOCIOLOGY
Have the poor fared best by participating in convention. II elec toral polities or by engaging in mass defiance ami disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating 1 h\" £oor assess the successes and failures of these l wo strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, foUl protest movements of lower·class groups in 20th century America: mobilization of the unemployed duro ing the Great Depression that gave rise to the IM:lrkers' Alliance of America
• The
• The industrial strikes that
formation of the CIO
resulted in the
• The Southern Civil Rights Movement • The movement of welfare recipients led by
the National Welfare Rights Organization. "... enormously instructive." -E.J. Hobsbawm, New York Review of Books
WHY THEY SUCCEED, THEY FAIL
"This beautifully written book is the most exciting and important political study in years."
-So M. Miller,
Department of Sociology, Boston Universily. "Of the first importance; it is bound to have a wide and various influence; and it is disturbing." -Jack Beatty, The Nation
90000
11 1 11111 1111 ISBN
0-394-72697-9
RICHARD A. CLOWARD VIN IAGE
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORS