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Running head : PIVEN AND CLOWARD

Piven and Cloward

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Piven and Cloward

1 . Piven and Cloward argued that the social welfare programs are tools used by politicians to strengthen their political party (1966 . They provided a brief study of history to prove this claim . It is through the history of social welfare that readers can understand how simple tokens were used and being used by elites to suppress social disturbances

Relief arrangements are proposed by politicians and elites just to suppress the poor . They

are just responses to the poor 's demands . As Piven and Cloward said , riots can be easily stopped by offering the minimum possible action that will not affect the support by elite parties (1966 . They know very well that the poor reacts immediately to small incentives given to them

2 . As stated above , social welfare are just used to suppress social disturbance . This is how the workers were sent back to the labor market By providing simple actions and many promises , the working class is forced to wait and stay in their current status

This action by political elites can force the working class to chose from waiting for their promises or find easy ways of improving the status of their lives . The latter option may include deviant professions and other criminal activities . Since it is difficult to live abiding the law the government made and that the government seems to not pay enough attention to the poor 's needs , it is not...