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No shortcuts : organizing for power in the new gilded age / Jane F. McAlevey.

No shortcuts : organizing for power in the new gilded age / Jane F. McAlevey.
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Record Number 18866
ISBN 9780190624712 (hardback)
Item Number (YBP)12905966
Location 331.87 MCA
Author McAlevey, Jane ([author]).
Title No shortcuts : organizing for power in the new gilded age / Jane F. McAlevey.
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Collation xv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content types still image
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Carrier type volume
General Note Reviewed by Janine Kitson, in 'Education', June 2018, p. 24.
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236) and index.
Contents Note Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Different Strategies Produce Different Levels of Power -- Chapter 3: Nursing Home Unions, Washington versus Connecticut -- Chapter 4 Chicago Teachers Union, Before and After 2010 -- Chapter 5 Smithfield Foods -- Chapter 6 Make the Road New York -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary Note "The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington, where they are outmatched and outspent by special interests. Labor unions now focus on the narrowest possible understanding of the interests of their members, and membership continues to decline in lockstep with the narrowing of their goals. Meanwhile, promising movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter have not accomplished meaningful change. Why do progressives keep losing on so many issues? In 'No shortcuts', Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change, to outlast their bosses in labor fights, and to hold elected leaders accountable. Drawing upon her experience as a scholar and longtime organizer in the student, environmental, and labor movements, McAlevey examines cases from labor unions and social movements to pinpoint the factors that helped them succeed - or fail - to accomplish their intended goals. McAlevey convincingly argues that the great social movements of previous eras gained their power from mass organizing, a strategy today's progressive have mostly abandoned in favour of shallow mobilization or advocacy. She ultimately concludes that, in order to win, progressive movements need strong unions built from bottom-up organizing strategies that place the power for change in the hands of workers and activists at the community level." - Book flap.
Subject Political science -- Political process -- Political advocacy
Political science -- Political ideologies
Community organization
Community power
Social movements
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