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Frances Fox Piven (1999-2000)
The Rich, the Poor, and American Politics

Frances Fox Piven is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. Her book Regulating the Poor, co-authored with Richard Cloward, is a landmark historical and theoretical analysis of the role of welfare policy in the economic and political control of the poor and working class. She also co-authored Poor Peoples' Movements (1977) The New Class War (1982, updated 1985), The Mean Season (1987), The Breaking of the American Social Compact (1997), Why Americans Don't Vote (1988; updated as Why Americans Still Don't Vote in 2000). She is the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Prize, the President's Award of the American Public Health Association, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.