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 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.

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