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No Shortcuts - Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Paperback)
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No Shortcuts - Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Paperback)
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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
DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched
and outspent by corporate 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 lack sufficient power to accomplish
meaningful change. Why do progressives in the United States 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 makes a
compelling case that the great social movements of previous eras
gained their power from mass organizing, a strategy today's
progressives have mostly abandoned in favor 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 ordinary people at the community level. Beyond the
concrete examples in this book, McAlevey's arguments have direct
implications for anyone involved in organizing for social change.
Much more than cogent analysis, No Shortcuts explains exactly how
progressives can go about rebuilding powerful movements at work, in
our communities, and at the ballot box.
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