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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rose, Fred, 1960- Coalitions across the class divide. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, ©2000 (OCoLC)609802730 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Fred Rose |
ISBN: | 0801436052 9780801436055 080148636X 9780801486364 |
OCLC Number: | 41967254 |
Description: | xi, 253 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | pt. I. The Class Divide -- 1. The Progressive Logjam -- 2. Coalition Democracy and Class Politics: An Overview -- pt. II. Why the Conflict? -- 3. Battles over Old Growth: The Problem of Multiple Interests -- 4. When Classes Meet: Class-Cultural Lenses -- pt. III. Historical Context -- 5. History Hangs in the Balance: Peace and Labor Relations -- 6. The Political Moment: Opportunities for Coalitions -- pt. IV. Coalitions in Practice -- 7. Coalition Organizing -- 8. Learning in Coalitions -- 9. Bridge Builders: Agents of Reconciliation -- 10. Finding a Common Language. Conclusion: Prospects for a Working- and Middle-Class Alliance. |
Responsibility: | Fred Rose. |
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"Coalitions Across the Class Divide is essential reading for scholars and political activists interested in the connections among class, class culture, political action, and social change. Fred Rose brings together a number of important strands of the academic literature on interest groups and class, and applies them to a set of issues that are of central importance-an excellent and influential book."-Bruce A. Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Fred Rose provides the practical experience and conceptual framework to counteract the major democracy-suppressing strategy of Big Business-which is to divide and rule the people. For activists, would-be activists, and other citizens looking for civic motivation, Coalitions Across the Class Divide is an uplift with its feet on the ground." -Ralph Nader "Rose makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of coalitions through in-depth case studies of several coalition building efforts. . . .This book fills many of the gaps left by existing coalition research Rose's political analysis is full of important insights. . . In many ways, Coalitions across the Class Divide represents an admirable fusion of serious scholarship with an engaged activist sensibility."-Brian K. Obach, SUNY-New Paltz. Mobilization, Fall 2001 "Rose brings practical experience and research knowledge to this examination of coalition-building among social movements. He notes that modern labor and modern peace movements are marked by intermovement conflict that hinders genuine democratic social change. . . . Useful for activists, organizers and students of social movements.-Choice Magazine. June, 2000. "Combining theories of class politics with case studies, Rose surveys the problems and possibilities of forging working- and middle-class coalitions around peace, environmental protection, and economic security. Opening with an excellent discussion of cross-class interactions, he then presents case studies based on interviews with loggers, environmentalists, peace advocates, and defense workers about the history of cross-class political alliances. . . Well researched and cogently argued, this is worth reading."-Library Journal. December, 1999. Read more...


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