Missing Class

Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures

Author: Betsy Leondar-Wright
ISBN: 9780801479205

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 overlook class culture differences. In Missing Class, Betsy Leondar-Wright uses a class-focused lens to show that members with different class life experiences tend to approach these problems differently. This perspective enables readers to envision new solutions that draw on the strengths of all class cultures to form the basis of stronger cross-class and multiracial movements.The first comprehensive empirical study of US activist class cultures, Missing Class looks at class dynamics in 25 groups that span the gamut of social movement organizations in the United States today, including the labor movement, grassroots community organizing, and groups working on global causes in the anarchist and pro

Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publish Date: 2014

Subjects: Social Science / Social Classes, Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Social Science / Volunteer Work

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