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Day: June 20, 2020

Poor people’s movements and how to win

Posted on 20 June, 2020 by preorg

I have been re-reading a classic of social movement studies ‘Poor people’s movements: Why they succeed and how they fail’ by Piven and Cloward. It has energised me a lot more than most social movement studies texts because it’s authors are very concerned with how to win. Their thesis was provocative in the 1970s and…

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