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Book SynopsisThis second edition draws on extensive research to portray how social-action organizations have evolved over the past twenty-five years, building power in the struggle for social and economic justice. It explores how organizers increasingly target corporate influence and fight pervasive intersectional injustice.
Trade ReviewThis book is an urgently needed account of how people can act together through organizing to realize a shared vision of a more just world. The organizations profiled in this book teach us how to make real the most fundamental promises of democracy. -- Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University
Mondros and Minieri break important new ground in this timely second edition, examining the evolution of progressive social-action organizing over the past twenty-five years. They broaden, deepen, and strengthen the original analysis with special focus on intersectional injustice, expanded corporate power, inequality, and a multiracial, feminist framework for organizing. -- Lee Staples, Boston University
The organizing work profiled in this book represents our best hope at defeating the rising tides of racial intolerance and corporate malfeasance. Filled with lessons learned from organizing in cities, towns, and suburbs across the United States,
Organizing for Power and Empowerment offers a roadmap out of the isolation and marginalization so many individuals face toward collective racial, gender, and economic transformation. -- Zach Norris, author
Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and PunishmentTable of ContentsPreface
1. The Evolution of Social Action Organizing
2. Organizing Against Corporate Power
3. Intersectional Injustice
4. Women and Gender Frames
5. The Organization as a Sustained Vehicle for Change and as a Political Home
6. Righteous Anger: Building the Base and Developing Leadership for Power
7. Issues: The Rubik’s Cube of Organizing
8. Campaign Strategy: Fundamentals and Innovation
9. Using Information and Communication Technologies
10. Conclusions: The Next Evolution of Organizing
Postscript: Reckoning and Resolve
Appendix: Study Methods
Acknowledgments
Additional Resources
Bibliography
Index
