Politics And The Class Divide

Author : David Croteau
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566392556
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and the Class Divide written by David Croteau and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People don't believe they have a say anymore, so they've given up.">p>That's the cynical conclusion of one worker in this study of the relationships between working people and the middle-class left. This rare accessible book on class differences in American life examines the impact of class status on an individual's participation-or non-participation-in the political process.Focusing on the relative absence of white working-class involvement in many contemporary U.S. liberal and left social movements, David Croteau goes straight to the source: members of the working class and activists in the environmental, peace, women's, and other social movements. Croteau rejects standard assumptions that apathy or simple conservatism explain working-class nonparticipation. Instead, he highlights the role of class-based resources and explores how varying cultural "tools" developed in different classes are more or less helpful in navigating and influencing the existing political environment. Commonly, he finds, the result is a middle-class sense of power and entitlement and a working-class sense of powerlessness and fatalism.Contemplating the future of social movements, he explores how lack of diversity hurts the effectiveness of what have become isolated middle-class movements, and proposes solutions that would increase the future political participation of working people in social movements. Author note: David Croteau, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, is co-author of By Invitation Only: How the Media Limits Political Debate.

Author : Linda Stout
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807043097
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridging the Class Divide written by Linda Stout and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1997-02-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Again and again social change movements--on matter s from the environment to women's rights--have been run by middle-class leaders. But in order to make real progress toward economic and social change, poor people--those most affected by social problems--must be the ones to speak up and lead. It can be done. Linda Stout herself grew up in poverty in rural North Carolina and went on to found one of this country's most successful and innovative grassroots organizations, the Piedmont Peace Project. Working for peace, jobs, health care, and basic social services in North Carolina's conservative Piedmont region, the project has attracted national attention for its success in drawing leadership from within a working-class community, actively encouraging diversity, and empowering people who have never had a voice in policy decisions to speak up for their own interests. The Piedmont Peace Project demonstrates that new ways of organizing can really work. Bridging the Class Divide tells the inspiring story of Linda Stout's life as the daughter of a tenant farmer, as a self-taught activist, and as a leader in the progressive movement. It also gives practical lessons on how to build real working relationships between people of different income levels, races, and genders. This book will inspire and enrich anyone who works for change in our society.

Author : Fred Rose
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501718738
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coalitions across the Class Divide written by Fred Rose and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often struggles for jobs and economic justice have been divided from social goals such as peace or protecting the environment. How do we create an economy where both the process and product of work serve life-sustaining goals? Coalitions across the Class Divide argues that the seeds of this new society are being sown by those who learn to bridge working and middle-class movements and cultures. A new generation of activists is seizing a historic opportunity to organize coalitions across the labor, peace, environmental, and other movements that have previously worked in isolation or at odds. Fred Rose brings the challenges and potential of coalition organizing to life through an in-depth look at cases of conflict and cooperation. From the timber wars in the Pacific Northwest to military conversion coalitions emerging with the end of the Cold War, these cases teach practical lessons about the processes and pitfalls of organizing across movements and classes.

Author : Zoltan Hajnal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487009
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerously Divided written by Zoltan Hajnal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race, more than class or any other factor, determines who wins and who loses in American democracy.

Author : Lynsey Hanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141040615
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Respectable written by Lynsey Hanley and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Society is often talked about as a ladder, from which you can climb from bottom to top. The walls are less talked about. This book is about how people try to get over them, whether they manage to or not. In autumn 1992, growing up on a vast Birmingham estate, the sixteen-year-old Lynsey Hanley went to sixth-form college. She knew that it would change her life, but was entirely unprepared for the price she would have to pay- to leave behind her working-class world and become middle class. In this empathic, wry and passionate exploration of class in Britain today, Lynsey Hanley looks at how people are kept apart, and keep themselves apart - and the costs involved in the journey from 'there' to 'here'."

Author : Margaret Weir
Publisher : Brookings Inst Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815792871
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Divide written by Margaret Weir and published by Brookings Inst Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights three distinctive features of politics and policymaking in creating this politics: the polarization of political elites; the predominance of advertising politics and intense fragmented interest group politics as political parties have ceased to mobilize ordinary people into politics; and the unprecedented role that budgetary concerns have played in social policymaking. The authors first analyze the institutions and tools of policymaking, including Congress, the political use of public opinion polling, and the politics of the deficit. They then consider policies designed to win over the middle class, including health care policy, employer-provided social benefits, wages and jobs, and crime policy. Last, they address policies targeted at the disadvantaged, including welfare, affirmative action, and urban policy.

Author : Ganesh Sitaraman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101973455
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution written by Ganesh Sitaraman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America’s constitutional system. For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was inevitable and inescapable—and they designed governments to prevent class divisions from spilling over into class warfare. The American Constitution is different. Compared to Europe and the ancient world, America was a society of almost unprecedented economic equality, and the founding generation saw this equality as essential for the preservation of America’s republic. Over the next two centuries, generations of Americans fought to sustain the economic preconditions for our constitutional system. But today, with economic and political inequality on the rise, Sitaraman says Americans face a choice: Will we accept rising economic inequality and risk oligarchy or will we rebuild the middle class and reclaim our republic? The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution is a tour de force of history, philosophy, law, and politics. It makes a compelling case that inequality is more than just a moral or economic problem; it threatens the very core of our constitutional system.

Author : Daanika Gordon
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479814059
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing the Racial Divide written by Daanika Gordon and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the relationships between racial segregation, urban governance, and policing in a postindustrial city. Drawing on rich ethnographic data and in-depth interviews, Gordon shows how the police augmented racial inequalities in service provision and social control by aligning their priorities with those of the city's urban growth coalition"--

Author : Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416588701
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winner-Take-All Politics written by Jacob S. Hacker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the growing divide between the incomes of the wealthy class and those of middle-income Americans, exonerating popular suspects to argue that the nation's political system promotes greed and under-representation.

Author : Douglas E. Schoen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442215232
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hopelessly Divided written by Douglas E. Schoen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the widening gap between politicians, including lobbyists and consultants, and the American mainstream, and discusses the rise in populist movements that threatens to drive the two-party system to its collapse.