Missing class strengthening social movement groups by seeing class cultures / Betsy Leondar-Wright.
| Author/creator | Leondar-Wright, Betsy |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ithaca ; London : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2014. |
| Description | xi, 274 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013040673 |
| ISBN | 9780801452567 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0801452562 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780801479205 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0801479207 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |