Re Organizing America

Author : Hahrie Han
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022674406X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisms of the People written by Hahrie Han and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this moment of societal upheaval. Unfortunately much of that action has not had the kind of impact participants might want, especially among movements representing the poor and marginalized who often have the most at stake when it comes to rights and equality. Yet, some instances of collective action have succeeded. What’s the difference between a movement that wins victories for its constituents, and one that fails? What are the factors that make collective action powerful? Prisms of the People addresses those questions and more. Using data from six movement organizations—including a coalition that organized a 104-day protest in Phoenix in 2010 and another that helped restore voting rights to the formerly incarcerated in Virginia—Hahrie Han, Elizabeth McKenna, and Michelle Oyakawa show that the power of successful movements most often is rooted in their ability to act as “prisms of the people,” turning participation into political power just as prisms transform white light into rainbows. Understanding the organizational design choices that shape the people, their leaders, and their strategies can help us understand how grassroots groups achieve their goals. Linking strong scholarship to a deep understanding of the needs and outlook of activists, Prisms of the People is the perfect book for our moment—for understanding what’s happening and propelling it forward.

Author : Charles Perrow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825083
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizing America written by Charles Perrow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technological forces in an all-efficient market, as some have argued? In this book, the first organizational history of nineteenth-century America, Yale sociologist Charles Perrow says no. He shows that there was nothing inevitable about the surge in corporate size and power by century's end. Critics railed against the nationalizing of the economy, against corporations' monopoly powers, political subversion, environmental destruction, and "wage slavery." How did a nation committed to individual freedom, family firms, public goods, and decentralized power become transformed in one century? Bountiful resources, a mass market, and the industrial revolution gave entrepreneurs broad scope. In Europe, the state and the church kept private organizations small and required consideration of the public good. In America, the courts and business-steeped legislators removed regulatory constraints over the century, centralizing industry and privatizing the railroads. Despite resistance, the corporate form became the model for the next century. Bureaucratic structure spread to government and the nonprofits. Writing in the tradition of Max Weber, Perrow concludes that the driving force of our history is not technology, politics, or culture, but large, bureaucratic organizations. Perrow, the author of award-winning books on organizations, employs his witty, trenchant, and graceful style here to maximum effect. Colorful vignettes abound: today's headlines echo past battles for unchecked organizational freedom; socially responsible alternatives that were tried are explored along with the historical contingencies that sent us down one road rather than another. No other book takes the role of organizations in America's development as seriously. The resultant insights presage a new historical genre.

Author : Mariame Kaba
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642595268
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Do This 'Til We Free Us written by Mariame Kaba and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller “Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you’re going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you want to.” What if social transformation and liberation isn’t about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle. With a foreword by Naomi Murakawa and chapters on seeking justice beyond the punishment system, transforming how we deal with harm and accountability, and finding hope in collective struggle for abolition, Kaba’s work is deeply rooted in the relentless belief that we can fundamentally change the world. As Kaba writes, “Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone.”

Author : Steven Henry Lopez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520235657
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reorganizing the Rust Belt written by Steven Henry Lopez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-04-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Ruth Berins Collier
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271075686
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reorganizing Popular Politics written by Ruth Berins Collier and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find political representation. With the political and economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, networks of community-based associations and nongovernmental organizations replaced party-affiliated labor unions as the predominant organizations to which the lower classes turned. This volume examines the new “interest regime” in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Venezuela through two extensive surveys—one of individuals and one of associations—undertaken in those nations’ capital cities. Contrary to common perceptions, the new interest regime is neither a vibrant, autonomous civil society nor a set of weak, atomized organizations. Participation in associations is generally high, compared to “direct action” as a strategy for pursuing collective interests, and associations more frequently coordinate and engage the state than has sometimes been assumed. However, various forms of interaction with the state pose a classic trade-off between representation and state control, and the new interest regime is marked by representational distortion, in that the lower classes are less likely to use the new structures than the middle classes. Within these general patterns, distinct national models are emerging. This volume represents the most ambitious and systematic effort to date to examine individual participation and associational life in Latin America and to carry out a cross-national analysis of new forms of political representation.

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781451518139
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re - Organizing America written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside re:Organizing America: A Plan for the 21st Century you will find a practical guide to addressing and achieving the change that America hopes for. Originally written by one of the great civil servants of all time, re:Organizing America outlines a specific agenda centered on the proper role of government in American life. From this basis general concepts are outlined, including the need a stable civic structure, the centrality of ethical ideas, and the proper use of the military. This seminal work will open you mind to a new understanding of what is and what could be.

Author : Michael Louis Zuckerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-organizing for America written by Michael Louis Zuckerman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reorganizing America's Intelligence Community written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nina Mjagkij
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135581231
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations written by Nina Mjagkij and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. Entries on both historical and contemporary organizations include: * African Aid Society * African-Americans forHumanism * Black Academy of Arts and Letters * BlackWomen's Liberation Committee * Minority Women in Science* National Association of Black Geologists andGeophysicists * National Dental Association * NationalMedical Association * Negro Railway Labor ExecutivesCommittee * Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association *Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist EpiscopalChurch * and many more.

Author : Alexandra Bradbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914093077
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Secrets of a Successful Organizer written by Alexandra Bradbury and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: