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Missing Class : Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures /
Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overloo...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: activist class cultures as a key to movement building
- Why look through a class lens? : five stories through three lenses
- Applying class concepts to US activists
- Four class categories of activists and their typical group troubles
- Movement traditions and their class cultural troubles
- Where is everybody? : approaches to recruitment and group cohesion
- Class speech differences I : humor and laughter
- Activating the inactive : leadership and group process solutions that backfire
- Class speech differences II : abstract and concrete vocabulary
- Class speech differences III : racial terms
- Diversity ironies : clashing anti-racism frames and practices
- Class speech differences IV : talking long, talking often
- Overtalkers : coping with the universal pet peeve
- Class speech differences V : anger, swearing, and insults
- Activists behaving badly : responses to extreme behavior violations
- Class speech differences VI : missing class talk
- Conclusion : building a movement with the strengths of all class cultures.