No shortcuts : organizing for power in the new gilded age /

Today's progressives have given up on organizing and now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington. Meanwhile, promising movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter cannot build enough power to accomplish meaningful change. In No Shortc...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
McAlevey, Jane
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford University Press 2016
Zusammenfassung:
Today's progressives have given up on organizing and now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington. Meanwhile, promising movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter cannot build enough power to accomplish meaningful change. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives must adopt bottom-up organizing strategies that place the power for change in the hands of workers and ordinary people at the community level in order to rebuild powerful social movements.
Umfang:
1 online resource (273 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-062473-6
0-19-062474-4
0-19-062472-8
Schlagworte:
Community organization.
Community power.
Social movements.
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