Lessons for Our Struggle

Labor movement

Class struggle is as American as apple pie. Frances Fox Piven offers a clear historical context to the current struggles around economic disparity, poverty and imperialism and relates them to the labor, civil-rights and anti-imperialist struggles of the Depression era.

About the author

Frances Fox Piven is the author of several books on the social history of the Great Depression, including Regulating the Poor and Poor People’s Movements, co-authored with Richard Cloward. More recently, she has written The War at Home, Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America, and Keeping Down the Black Vote.

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"Piven has embodied the best of American democracy."—The Nation

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