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I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?
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I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."
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The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people to discover the power latent in the cooperative roles that they play in a range of institutions.
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Frances Fox Piven
Born:
October 10, 1932
(age 92)
Bio:
Frances Fox Piven is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982.
Known for:
Regulating the poor (1956)
Poor people's movements (1977)
Why Americans Still Don't Vote (1988)
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