Missing class strengthening social movement groups by seeing class cultures / Betsy Leondar-Wright.

Author/creator Leondar-Wright, Betsy
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIthaca ; London : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2014.
Descriptionxi, 274 pages ; 25 cm
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013040673
ISBN9780801452567 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0801452562 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780801479205 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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