Politics In Progressive America Research Articles

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This Could be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements for Regional Equity are Reshaping Metropolitan America

For nearly two decades, progressives have been dismayed by the steady rise of the right in U.S. politics. Often lost in the gloom and doom about American politics is a striking and sometimes underanalyzed phenomenon: the resurgence of progressive politics and movements at a local level. Emphasizing “regional equity,” unusual alliances of labor, community and even business groups have been built around issues of community benefits, housing affordability, and access to transit. Drawing on a wealth of case studies as well as their own experience in the field, Pastor, Benner, and Matsuoka point out the promise and pitfalls of this new approach and argue that what they term social movement regionalism can offer an important contribution to the revitalization of progressive politics in America.

Activism, Inc.: How that Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns is Strangling Progressive Politics in America By Dana R. Fisher Stanford University Press. 2006. 168 pages. $24.95 cloth

Activism, Inc.: How that Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns is Strangling Progressive Politics in America By Dana R. Fisher Stanford University Press. 2006. 168 pages. $24.95 cloth

Have Progressives Forgotten How to Mobilize?: Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns is Strangling Progressive Politics in America

Have Progressives Forgotten How to Mobilize?: Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns is Strangling Progressive Politics in America

Activism Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America and The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

Activism Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America. By Dana R. Fisher. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. 168p. $24.95 cloth. The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle. By T. V. Reed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 362p. $74.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. These two new books bring welcome perspectives to the study of social movements in America. Reed considers the art of collective action: in terms of both the creative repertoire of activists responding to evolving social and political contexts and the cultural arts that are invoked by and associated with social movements. Fisher's book, meanwhile, sheds light on a second dimension of collective action: the nationwide grassroots canvassing organizations that collect donations and [ostensibly] inform concerned citizens about progressive issues. At first glance, the two books seem to be speaking to aspects of mobilization that are worlds apart. However, their differences help to bring a fuller understanding of the operational field in which social movements are sustained or wither.

Gathering power: the future of progressive politics in America

Gathering power: the future of progressive politics in America

The activist's handbook: a primer for the 1990s and beyond

The Activist's Handbook is a hard-hitting guide to winning social change in the 1990s. Randy Shaw, attorney and longtime activist for urban issues, shows how positive change can still be accomplished despite an increasingly grim political order, if activists employ the strategies set forth in this desperately needed primer. Inspiring 'fear and loathing' in politicians, building diverse coalitions, and harnessing the media, the courts, and the electoral process to one's cause are only some of the key tactics Shaw advocates and explains. Central to all social-change activism, Shaw shows, is being proactive: rather than simply reacting to right-wing proposals, activists must develop an agenda and focus their resources on achieving it.The Activist's Handbook details the impact of specific strategies on campaigns across the country: battles over homelessness, the environment, AIDS policies, neighbourhood preservation, and school reform among others. Though activist groups can have widely different aims, similar tactics are shown to produce success. Further, the book offers a sophisticated analysis of the American power structure by someone on the front lines. In showing how people can and must make a difference at both local and national levels, this is an indispensable guide not only for activists, but for everyone interested in the future of progressive politics in America.

The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America

The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America

The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America.

The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America.

The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America.

Journal Article The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America. By Bernard A. Weisberger. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. xx, 364 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-299-14130-6.) Get access James J. Lorence James J. Lorence University of Wisconsin Center, Marathon County, Wausau, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 291–292, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082069 Published: 01 June 1995

The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America

The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America

The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America

The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America

The La Follettes of Wisconsin: love and politics in progressive America

Dynastic political families have been an American tradition since the birth of the Republic. Indeed, a good part of our entire political history could be written simply by setting out the family histories of the Adamses, Roosevelts, Longs, and Kennedys. To that illustrious list must be added the La Follettes of Wisconsin, and they are brought vividly to life as never before in this collective biography by veteran journalist Bernard Weisberger. Magnetic, theatrical, intensely loved and passionately denounced, Robert Marion Fighting La Follette was the rebel knight of the Progressive vanguard and a family patriarch in the larger-than-life tradition of Joe Kennedy. As governor of Wisconsin (1901-1906) and U.S. Senator (1906-1925) he battled uncompromisingly for his vision of democracy - an idealistic mixture of informed citizenry and enlightened public servants combining to produce a utopian egalitarianism. By contrast, the private man, often isolated and defeated by social forces beyond his understanding or control, suffered from intense periods of depression and relied heavily on his family for survival. With his beloved wife, Belle Case La Follette, a Progressive journalist in her own right, raised their brood to perceive a unique personal and family responsibility for challenging (and curing) society's ills. His child, Fola, left her stage career to campaign for suffrage; Robert Jr. followed his father to the Senate in 1925, when he was only thirty; and, in 1930, youngest son Phil became the old man's heir as Governor of Wisconsin and as the state's leading Progressive figure. Not unlike the twentieth century's other political first family, however, the LaFollette saga ends in largely unrealized promise and tragedy. Fola, Phil, and Bob all ultimately abandoned public life, the latter two after bitter defeat and disillusionment. Finally, in February of 1953, young took his own life. An intimate portrait of the Progressive movement

Between feminism and labor: the significance of the comparable worth movement

'Equal pay for equal work' has long been a forceful slogan of the feminist and labor movements. Now, however, as the American economy depends more and more on 'women's work', it has become clear that this objective does not benefit the majority of women, who are employed in sex-segregated jobs. In and Labor, Linda M. Blum examines the movement for comparable worth, or equal pay for comparable work, as a strategy to raise wages for the 'pink-collar' jobs that are most frequently occupied by women. She explores the larger political implications of the movement and provides the first study of pay equity to focus directly on the mobilization of the female work force at the grass-roots level. Through two case studies of local comparable worth movements - in San Jose and Contra Costa County, California - Blum probes several important issues. She asks whether comparable worth can contribute to the formation of active labor-feminist alliances, and after a nuanced, intelligent analysis of the complexities and contradictions of comparable worth, endorses its radical potential to improve women's wages and forge links between gender- and class-based politics. Between Feminism and Labor also situates comparable worth in the context of the limitations of affirmative action, a strategy seeking to move women into male jobs as opposed to raising the value of women's work. It is the first study to contrast these two strategies and to place them within the theoretical and political debates over the validation of gender difference versus the requirement of gender neutrality. As such, the book should stimulate debate among those concerned with the future of the feminist movement, as well as those interested in the future of organized labor and progressive politics in America.

Common program: Transitional strategies for black and progressive politics in America

Common program: Transitional strategies for black and progressive politics in America