THE DECLINING SIGNIFICANCE OF CLASS? The Case of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993

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  • Richard A. Cloward Ph.D. Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work, Columbia University.
  • Frances Fox Piven Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Graduate School and University Center. The City University of New York.

Abstract

When it became clear after the 1980 election that Republicans and many Democrats would try to dismantle much of the welfare state, we tried to organize resistance among human service workers. This effort helped, a decade later, to bring about an outcome that could not have been further from our minds initially --the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR

 

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2014-06-12

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Cloward, R. A., & Piven, F. F. (2014). THE DECLINING SIGNIFICANCE OF CLASS? The Case of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 1(1), 7–23. Retrieved from https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/357

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