Word: cloward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More radical yet is the guaranteed annual income, an idea that surfaced in Edward Bellamy's 19th century novel, Looking Backward, and strikes many sociologists today as the wave of the future. Columbia Social Work Professor Richard Cloward proposes a strategy of crisis and disruption to achieve it. As Cloward sees it, welfare is a "savage and barbarous" system that strips recipients of all dignity. If millions of the poor could be shown how to claim all the benefits to which they are legally entitled, Cloward believes, they would so overload welfare rolls that Congress would have no choice...