POLS3020 University of Utah Poor People’s Movements Essay

On the following, write a 5-page paper (Double-spaced, pages numbered, 1-inch margins, sources cited, and other academic paper conventions). No external sources are required.

Choose one chapter (2, 3, or 4) in Poor People’s Movements and show how this movement displayed key qualities outlined in the book’s introductory chapter (Chap 1). Specifically address some of the necessary conditions that were met for the movement to arise, as well as the governmental response and organization-building and decline.

Required text: Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, Poor People’s Movements (Vintage)