Kyle Harrison
to-read
Regulating the Poor
Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
- Author
- Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
- Published
- 1971
- Pages
- 389
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward’s 1971 classic arguing that relief rolls expand and contract to manage unrest and enforce low-wage work — welfare read as a labour-discipline instrument.
Where I heard about it
- Barnes & Noble Huntington Beach (@bnhuntingtonbeach) — on the health-care-and-poverty shelf in a BookTok video billed as “our personal syllabus for this semester as we say goodbye to tiktok.”