Another more recent work by Cloward.
Abstract
Trying to Break Down the Barriers
Cloward, Richard A. | November 2, 1985 issue
The voter registration movement of 1984 in the United States was expected, by the Left, to reverse the electoral tide. But that did not happen. This was due to several factors. In the 1982 midterm elections the severe recession produced an upsurge in voting by blacks, blue-collar workers and the unemployed. Turnout rose for the first time in two decades, reaching 64 million, or 10 million more than in 1978, and swelling the vote for Democratic candidates for the House by 6 million. The election of a number of black mayors in 1983 confirmed the upsurge. Taken together, those events suggested that an electoral mobilization had become possible among 50 million to 60 million Americans who are unregistered, two-thirds of whom make less than the median income.
See Also:
VOTER registration; NINETEEN eighty-four, A.D.; RIGHT & left (Political science); AFRICAN Americans — Social conditions; UNEMPLOYED; UNITED States
Tell me this guy hasn’t been guiding this movement for a LONG time, and evolving his movement and leadership. The Democrat movement is following this guys work. And his penultimate achievement is Barak Obama. He died some time ago. So all they have is his written work and the leadership of the Democratic MOVEMENT is DOING what this guy describes. If we read Cloward’s work, we will know what the movement is planning and expecting to get out of this, and maybe a way to counter it.