Description |
480 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Lineages of change : strategies for underdogs -- You can't build what you can't imagine : the role of vision in transformational change -- How underdogs win : strategy fundamentals -- The change ensemble : forms of power -- Setting the stage : six ways overdogs got us to today -- Base-building-community organizations : love and rigor at make the Road NY -- Base-building-labor unions : worker power, the common good, and the St. Paul Federation of Educators -- Disruptive movements : breaking the rules, changing the paradigm : the welfare rights movement -- Narrative shift : changing the common sense : Occupy Wall Street -- Electoral change : politics from the ground up : building multiracial coalitions to take governing power -- Inside-outside campaigns : building coalitions to seize the moment : winning $15 in Chicago -- Momentum : distributed organizing, big results : 350.org and the divestment movement -- Collective care : personal pain to communal strength : the Gay Men's Health Crisis responds to AIDS -- Power from below : harmonizing strategy models in the movement for abolition -- Unity builds power : addressing conflict in organizations and movements -- Strategists are made, not born : the inner life of strategy -- Learning from our opponents : how overdogs develop strategy -- Rhythms for practical radicals : a long view -- Learning from lineages, harmonizing our movements. |
Summary |
"A clear, expert, and inspiring guide to social change, based on case studies of grassroots movements that won, from two leading community and labor experts"-- Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Subject |
Social movements -- United States.
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Social change -- United States.
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Community organization -- United States.
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Added Author |
Luce, Stephanie, author.
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ISBN |
9781620978214 (hardcover) |
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