Have
the poor fared best by participating
in conventional electoral politics
or by engaging in mass defiance
and disruption? The authors
of the classic Regulating The
Poor assess the successes and
failures of these two strategies
as they examine, in this provocative
study, four protest movements
of lower-class groups in 20th
century America:
- The mobilization of the unemployed
during the Great Depression
that gave rise to the Workers'
Alliance of America
- The industrial strikes that
resulted in the formation of
the CIO
- The Southern Civil Rights
Movement
- The movement of welfare recipients
led by the National Welfare
- Rights Organization
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