How Labour is (Part of) the Problem in Building the Left
Toronto, October 15, 2010. Lecture by: Professor Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center. A leading scholar and political activist, Frances Fox Piven was recently president of the American Sociological Association … Watch video »
Toronto, October 15, 2010.
Lecture by: Professor Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center.
A leading scholar and political activist, Frances Fox Piven was recently president of the American Sociological Association
and is former Vice-President of the American Political Science Association. Her most recent book is
Keeping Down the Black Vote (2009).
Other books include:
- Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (2006),
- The War at Home: The Domestic Causes and Consequences of Bush’s Militarism (2004),
- Why Americans Still Don’t Vote (2000), (Google preview)
- Breaking of the American Social Compact (1997) and
- Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (updated edition, 1993).
Moderated by John Myles, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto.
