Frances Fox Piven

Frances Fox Piven ( born 1932 in Calgary, Alberta ) is a Canadian Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

It was in 1962 his doctorate at the University of Chicago. 2006 to 2007 she was president of the American Sociological Association. She was married to Richard A. Cloward, with whom she worked for a long time. He died in 2001.

Activities

Throughout her career Piven combined her academic work with social and political engagement. An example: In 1983, she was co-founder of Human SERVE, an organization that people bring to tried to register for the elections. The proposal of the group was that people who took social welfare services or had to do with the car - management, should be addressed on a registration. The research showed that straight arms are often not allowed to register. The initiative of Human Serve was taken up by the Clinton administration and amended in 1993, the National Voter Registration Act. This version of the Act is popularly known as "motor voter bill" ( Ehrenreich 2006).

After continuing hostility from the ultra-conservative Fox News Anchor Glenn Beck Piven received repeated death threats.

Awards and Honors

She received the American Sociological Association Career Award for the Practice of Sociology (2000), the Mary Lepper Award of the Womens ' Caucus of the American Political Science Association (1998); the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociology Association; the Tides Foundation Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy (1995); the Annual Award of the National Association of Secretaries of State ( 1994); President's Award of the American Public Health Association (1993 ), Lee / Founders Award of the Society for the Study of Social problem; the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Prize and the C. Wright Mills Award.

Bibliography

  • Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America ( Rowman and Littlefield, 2006)
  • Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies (Oxford University Press, 1992)

With Richard Cloward:

  • Why Americans Still Do not Vote: And Why Politicians Want it That Way ( Beacon, 2000)
  • The Breaking of the American Social Compact ( New Press, 1997 )
  • Why Americans Do not Vote: And Why Politicians Want it That Way ( Beacon, 1988)
  • New Class War: Reagan 's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences ( Pantheon, 1982)
  • Poor People's Movements: Why the Succeed, How They Fail ( Pantheon, 1977), German uprising of the poor, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1986
  • Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare ( Pantheon, 1971), German regulation of poverty: the policy that is public. Welfare, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1977.

Frances Fox Piven of papers Papers are stored at Smith College; the site Fivecolleges.edu describes the collection Scope and Contents of the Collection

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