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Freedom is an endless meeting : democracy in American social movements / Francesca Polletta

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Polletta, Francesca
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Strategy and democracy -- Army, town meeting, or church in the Catacombs? -- The organization of American protest, 1900-1960 -- A band of brothers standing in a circle of trust: Southern civil rights organizing, 1961-64 -- Letting which people decide what? SNCC's crisis of democracy, 1964-65 -- Participatory democracy in the New Left, 1960-67 -- Friendship and equality in the women's liberation movement, 1967-77 -- Democracy in relationship: Community organizing and direct action today -- Rules, rituals, and relationships.
Summary
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta challenges the conventional wisdom that participatory democracy is worthy in purpose but unworkable in practice. Instead, she shows that social movements have often used bottom-up decision making as a powerful tool for political change. Polletta traces the history of democracy in early labor struggles and pre-World War II pacifism, in the.
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ISBN
9780226924281 (electronic bk.)
0226924289 (electronic bk.)
0226674487
9780226674483
0226674495
9780226674490
9780224674492
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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