What to Read After Regulating the poor
Readers who loved Regulating the poor by Frances Fox Piven keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Regulating the poor is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Regulating the poor
White Trash
The power elite
Bread and Roses
Fear of Falling
Rachel and her children
From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition
Ain't No Makin' It
When Work Disappears
The hidden injuries of class
Pirates & emperors
White collar
Five families
To 'Joy My Freedom
The Right to Useful Unemployment
Invisible hands
Stayin' Alive
What the Best College Teachers Do
Rules for radicals
Sister Outsider
Pedagogia do Oprimido
On writing well
Ancillary Justice
Parable of the Sower
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything