Janet K Roach
Biographic Data
| ID | 298207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet K Roach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet K |
| FAMILY NAME | Roach |
| SIGNATURE | ROACH J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Connecticut State College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The UConn story (revisited)
The Economic Crisis
Response to Piven and Cloward
Two features of Piven and Cloward's scatter-gun reply to our paper, Turmoil in Command of Politics, stand out: their failure to respond adequately to our major conclusion and their heavy use of virulent red-baiting and ad hominem arguments which obscures that failure. We concluded on the basis of an examination of several of their works (not just Poor People's Movements, as their reply suggests) that, There is such a bad fit among the four moveme…
Turmoil in Command of Politics
How might poor people today best improve their situation in life? What is the most effective path open to them? An answer that has received much attention in recent years is Piven and Cloward's proposal that poor people mobilize independently and engage in disruptive tactics. Their proposal is grounded in an historical analysis of the successes and failures of past movements of the poor. The core of our paper is a critique of their historical app…
Disunity and Unity of the Working Class
their analysis of poor people's movements. They maintain that the most effective strategy available to the poor today for improving their condition1 is independent mobilization and the use of disruptive tactics. We argue that (1) independent activities of poor people will fail to im-prove their status significantly and (2) substantial improvement in their status is most likely to be achieved as a result of certain kinds of activity within organiz…
Mobilizing the Poor
This paper is addressed to the recommendation that the most effective strategy available to the poor for improving their condition is independent mobilization and the use of disruptive tactics. The most prominent exponents of this position are Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. We examine their analysis of “poor people's movements” with particular emphasis on their account of the National Welfare Rights Organization and its failure. We conclu…
Some Comments on Gans's "Positive Functions of Poverty" and on "The Famine in American Mass Communications Research
Mobilizing the Poor
This paper is addressed to the recommendation that the most effective strategy available to the poor for improving their condition is independent mobilization and the use of disruptive tactics. The most prominent exponents of this position are Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. We examine their analysis of “poor people's movements” with particular emphasis on their account of the National Welfare Rights Organization and its failure. We conclu…
The UConn story (revisited)
Some Comments on Gans's "Positive Functions of Poverty" and on "The Famine in American Mass Communications Research
Mobilizing the Poor
This paper is addressed to the recommendation that the most effective strategy available to the poor for improving their condition is independent mobilization and the use of disruptive tactics. The most prominent exponents of this position are Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. We examine their analysis of “poor people's movements” with particular emphasis on their account of the National Welfare Rights Organization and its failure. We conclu…
Disunity and Unity of the Working Class
their analysis of poor people's movements. They maintain that the most effective strategy available to the poor today for improving their condition1 is independent mobilization and the use of disruptive tactics. We argue that (1) independent activities of poor people will fail to im-prove their status significantly and (2) substantial improvement in their status is most likely to be achieved as a result of certain kinds of activity within organiz…
Response to Piven and Cloward
Two features of Piven and Cloward's scatter-gun reply to our paper, Turmoil in Command of Politics, stand out: their failure to respond adequately to our major conclusion and their heavy use of virulent red-baiting and ad hominem arguments which obscures that failure. We concluded on the basis of an examination of several of their works (not just Poor People's Movements, as their reply suggests) that, There is such a bad fit among the four moveme…
Turmoil in Command of Politics
How might poor people today best improve their situation in life? What is the most effective path open to them? An answer that has received much attention in recent years is Piven and Cloward's proposal that poor people mobilize independently and engage in disruptive tactics. Their proposal is grounded in an historical analysis of the successes and failures of past movements of the poor. The core of our paper is a critique of their historical app…
The Economic Crisis
The UConn story (revisited)
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Action (physics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Development economics (2 works)