Readings

• Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. 1993. Regulating the Poor. NY: Vintage (Chapter 1, ‘Relief, labor and civil disorder: An overview,’ pp 3-41). In Canvas.
• Herbert J. Gans. 1971. The uses of poverty: The poor pay all. Social Policy (July/Aug): 20-24. In Canvas.

Lecture pages

• Social welfare: Historical highlights
• Brief primer on capitalism
• Welfare as regulation of the poor (graphic)
• The 1960s and welfare
• Post 1960s: Business fights back
• Does poverty have its beneficiaries (brief discussion of Gans’ article)?
• Class discussion outline