The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933 »

Frances Fox Piven is faculty at the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is the author of several books on the social history of the Great Depression, including Regulating the Poor and Poor People's Movements, co-authored with Richard Cloward. More recently, she has written The War at Home, Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America, and Keeping the Black Vote Down.

A fascinating, comprehensive study of the American workforce, from the "roaring twenties" through the Great Depression.