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  2. Cloward–Piven strategy - Wikipedia

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    The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.The strategy aims to utilize "militant anti poverty groups" to facilitate a "political crisis" by overloading the welfare system via an increase in welfare claims, forcing the creation of a system of guaranteed minimum income and ...

  3. 1970s in sociology - Wikipedia

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    Frank Parkin's Class Inequality and Political Order: Social Stratification in Capitalist and Communist Societies is published. [13] Talcott Parsons' The System of Modern Societies is published. [14] Frances Fox Piven's and Richard Cloward's Regulating the poor; the functions of public welfare is published. [15]

  4. Family Assistance Plan - Wikipedia

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    Motivations to reform welfare and introduce the FAP were not only grounded in moral terms of eradicating poverty in the United States. As documents were opened in the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library (RNPL), it has become clear that much of the reasoning behind Nixon's proposal of the FAP may have come from an attempt to appease the worries of a predominately white lower and middle ...

  5. Brothers Home - Wikipedia

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    The Brothers' Home (Korean: 형제복지원; RR: Hyungje Bokjiwon) was an internment camp (officially a welfare facility) located in Busan, South Korea during the 1970s and 1980s . The camp was home to some of the worst human rights abuses in South Korea during the period of social purification [ 2 ] and has been nicknamed "Korea's Auschwitz ...

  6. Labour government, 1964–1970 - Wikipedia

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    In terms of social security, the welfare state was significantly expanded through substantial increases in national insurance benefits (which rose in real terms by 20% from 1964 to 1970) [59] and the creation of new social welfare benefits. A variety of measures was introduced under Wilson which improved the living standards of many people with ...

  7. Great Society - Wikipedia

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    President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2, 1964. The Great Society was a series of domestic programs enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the United States from 1964 to 1968, with the stated goals of totally eliminating poverty and racial injustice in the country.

  8. Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979) - Wikipedia

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    A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present (1994) 608pp; Gregg, Pauline. A Social and Economic History of Britain: 1760–1950 (1950) online; Harrison, Brian (2009). Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951—1970. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-160678-6. major survey with emphasis social history

  9. History of social democracy - Wikipedia

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    Instead of this, Crosland claimed that a socialist programme should be about support of social welfare, redistribution of wealth and "the proper dividing line between the public and private spheres of responsibility". [178] In post-war Germany, the SPD endorsed a similar policy on nationalizations to that of the British Labour government.