Frances Fox Piven, född 10 oktober 1932 i Calgary, Alberta, Kanada, är en amerikansk professor i statsvetenskap och sociologi vid The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Aktivism Under hela sin karriär har Piven kombinerat vetenskapligt arbete med politisk aktivism.

Pris American Sociological Association Career Award for the Practice of Sociology (2000) Charles McCoy Career Achievement Award of the Caucus for a New Political Science of the American Political Science Association (2004) Mary Lepper Award of the Women's Caucus of the American Political Science Association (1998) American Sociology Association Lifetime Achievement Award for Political Sociology Tides Foundation Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy (1995) Annual Award of the National Association of Secretaries of State (1994) President's Award of the American Public Health Association (1993) Lee/Founders Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Eugene V. Debs Foundation Prize C. Wright Mills Award.CUNY Faculty Home Page and Bio

Bibliografi Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies (Oxford University Press, 1992, ) The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism (New Press, 2004, ) Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006, )

Med Richard Cloward: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (Pantheon, 1971, 2nd ed: Vintage, 1993, ) Poor People's Movements: Why they Succeed, How they Fail (Pantheon, 1977, ) New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences (Pantheon, 1982, ) Why Americans Don't Vote (Pantheon, 1988, ) The Breaking of the American Social Compact (New Press, 1997, ) Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want it That Way (Beacon, 2000, )

Med Lee Staples and Richard Cloward: Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing (Praeger, 1984, )

With Lorraine Minnite and Margaret Groarke: Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters (New Press, 2009, )

The Frances Fox Piven Papers are held by Smith College .

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