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A New New Deal : How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement / David B. Reynolds, Amy B. Dean.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Century Foundation BookPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 1 line figureContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801448386
  • 9780801458491
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.880973 22
LOC classification:
  • HD8066 .D42 2009
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword by Harold Meyerson -- A Note from The Century Foundation by Richard C. Leone -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Birth of Regional Power Building -- 1. Thinking Regionally -- 2. The Regional Power-Building Model Emerges in California -- The Three Legs of Regional Power Building -- 3. Developing a Regional Policy Agenda -- 4. Deep Coalitions -- 5. From Access to Governance: Building Aggressive Political Action -- The Spread of Regional Power Building -- 6. Understanding the Spread of Regional Power Building across the Country -- 7. Toward a National Strategy for Spreading Regional Power Building -- Notes -- Index
Summary: In A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism and build a sense of common purpose between labor and community organizations. Dean and Reynolds demonstrate how alliances organized at the regional level are the most effective tool to build a voice for working people in the workplace, community, and halls of government.The authors draw on their own successes to offer in-depth, contemporary case studies of effective labor-community coalitions. They also outline a concrete strategy for building power at the regional level. This pioneering model presents the regional building blocks for national change. A diverse audience-both within the labor movement and among its allies-will welcome this clear, detailed, and inspiring presentation of regional power-building tactics, which include deep coalition-building, leadership development, policy research, and aggressive political action.A New New Deal explores successful coalitions forged in Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, San Jose, New Haven, and Atlanta toward goals such as universal health insurance for children and sensible redevelopment efforts that benefit workers as well as businesses. The authors view partnerships between labor and grassroots organizations as a mutually beneficial strategy based on shared goals, resulting in a broadened membership base and increased organizational capacity. They make the innovative argument that the labor movement can steward both industry and community and make manifest the ways in which workplace battles are not the parochial concerns of isolated workers, but a fundamental struggle for America's future.Drawing on historical parallels, the authors illustrate how long-term collaborations between labor and community organizations are sowing the seeds of a new New Deal.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword by Harold Meyerson -- A Note from The Century Foundation by Richard C. Leone -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Birth of Regional Power Building -- 1. Thinking Regionally -- 2. The Regional Power-Building Model Emerges in California -- The Three Legs of Regional Power Building -- 3. Developing a Regional Policy Agenda -- 4. Deep Coalitions -- 5. From Access to Governance: Building Aggressive Political Action -- The Spread of Regional Power Building -- 6. Understanding the Spread of Regional Power Building across the Country -- 7. Toward a National Strategy for Spreading Regional Power Building -- Notes -- Index

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In A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism and build a sense of common purpose between labor and community organizations. Dean and Reynolds demonstrate how alliances organized at the regional level are the most effective tool to build a voice for working people in the workplace, community, and halls of government.The authors draw on their own successes to offer in-depth, contemporary case studies of effective labor-community coalitions. They also outline a concrete strategy for building power at the regional level. This pioneering model presents the regional building blocks for national change. A diverse audience-both within the labor movement and among its allies-will welcome this clear, detailed, and inspiring presentation of regional power-building tactics, which include deep coalition-building, leadership development, policy research, and aggressive political action.A New New Deal explores successful coalitions forged in Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, San Jose, New Haven, and Atlanta toward goals such as universal health insurance for children and sensible redevelopment efforts that benefit workers as well as businesses. The authors view partnerships between labor and grassroots organizations as a mutually beneficial strategy based on shared goals, resulting in a broadened membership base and increased organizational capacity. They make the innovative argument that the labor movement can steward both industry and community and make manifest the ways in which workplace battles are not the parochial concerns of isolated workers, but a fundamental struggle for America's future.Drawing on historical parallels, the authors illustrate how long-term collaborations between labor and community organizations are sowing the seeds of a new New Deal.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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