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Social services stifle political unrest and ensures an ample supply of low wage workers for capitalists

 Sarah Steinheimer, Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, 2008, “Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation by Anna Marie Smith.,”  p. 226-7

As a political theorist, Smith dedicates three chapters of her book to an in-depth examination of social and political theory and concludes Chapter Three with an outline of her own theory of sexual regulation. Inspired by Michel Foucault, Smith draws most heavily on his theory of biopower -- modern population control by the State n1 (p. 38). Smith also emphasizes the work of welfare theorists Piven and Cloward, who argue the true function of the welfare State is not to provide for poor families, but to stifle political unrest and to ensure an ample supply of low-wage workers for capitalist interests n2 (p.15).

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