{"product_id":"missing-class-strengthening-social-movement-groups-by-seeing-class-cultures-hardback-9780801452567","title":"Missing Class; Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures (Hardback) 9780801452567","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMissing Class\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStrengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBetsy Leondar-Wright (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801452567\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 March 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 7 tables, 2 charts - 7 Tables, unspecified\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetsy Leondar-Wright's book is crucially important for social justice activists. She offers much-needed advice about how to acknowledge your class background and harness it for the greater good. Eye-opening and insightful, this book provides a new way forward.\u003c\/p\u003e - Matthew Rothschild, Senior Editor (The Progressive) \u003cp\u003eFrom fashion sense to senses of humor, \u003ci\u003eMissing Class\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the subtle cues in which class disparities manifest within activist groups. In a context where class is sometimes conspicuously missing from our stories, this is a welcome reminder to put it back in.\u003c\/p\u003e - Louis Esparza (Mobilization) \u003cp\u003eI cannot recommend\u003ci\u003e Missing Class\u003c\/i\u003e too highly. Some books stimulate you intellectually.... Some books deepen awareness.... Some books are practical.... It's rare to find a book that does one of these things well. A book that does all three, brilliantly, is beyond rare. It's a historical event.\u003c\/p\u003e - Milan Rai (Peace News) \u003cp\u003eLeondar-Wright's \u003ci\u003eMissing Class\u003c\/i\u003eis by far the best book available on the touchy subject of 'classism' since her own previous work,\u003ci\u003eClass Matters: Cross-class Alliance Building for Middle Class Activist\u003c\/i\u003e, and Fred Rose's incisive 1999 study,\u003ci\u003eCoalitions across the Class Divide: Lessons from the Labor, Peace, and Environmental Movements\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Cornell. Like Rose before her, the author illustrates what bridges the divide—and what doesn't—within left-liberal groups and the broader, more diverse coalitions we need to alter power relationships in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Labor Studies Journal) \u003cp\u003eThe book's greatest virtue is that it makes a strong case that class cultures do create substantial barriers among activists and can undermine their groups' efficacy. Anyone working with people of varying class back-grounds will appreciate the material presented in this book....\u003ci\u003eMissing Class \u003c\/i\u003eis a well-done book and a fine contribution to the study of social class in politics, and I hope that it will be a stepping stone for a new generation of research on activist groups that links internal processes with tangible outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e - Fabio Rojas (Administrative Science Quarterly)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. In \u003ci\u003eMissing Class\u003c\/i\u003e, Betsy Leondar-Wright uses a class-focused lens to show that members with different class life experiences tend to approach these problems differently. This perspective enables readers to envision new solutions that draw on the strengths of all class cultures to form the basis of stronger cross-class and multiracial movements.The first comprehensive empirical study of US activist class cultures, \u003ci\u003eMissing Class\u003c\/i\u003e looks at class dynamics in 25 groups that span the gamut of social movement organizations in the United States today, including the labor movement, grassroots community organizing, and groups working on global causes in the anarchist and progressive traditions. Leondar-Wright applies Pierre Bourdieu's theories of cultural capital and habitus to four class trajectories: lifelong working-class and poor; lifelong professional middle class; voluntarily downwardly mobile; and upwardly mobile.Compellingly written for both activists and social scientists, this book describes class differences in paths to activism, attitudes toward leadership, methods of conflict resolution, ways of using language, diversity practices, use of humor, methods of recruiting, and group process preferences. Too often, we miss class. \u003ci\u003eMissing Class\u003c\/i\u003e makes a persuasive case that seeing class culture differences could enable activists to strengthen their own groups and build more durable cross-class alliances for social justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Activist Class Cultures as a Key to Movement Building\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Class Diversity among Activists\u003cbr\u003e 1. Why Look through a Class Lens? Five Stories through Three Lenses\u003cbr\u003e 2. Applying Class Concepts to US Activists\u003cbr\u003e 3. Four Class Categories of Activists and Their Typical Group Troubles\u003cbr\u003e 4. Movement Traditions and Their Class Cultural Troubles\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Activist Class Cultures and Solving Group Troubles\u003cbr\u003e 5. Where Is Everybody? Approaches to Recruitment and Group Cohesion\u003cbr\u003e Class Speech Differences I: Humor and Laughter\u003cbr\u003e 6. Activating the Inactive: Leadership and Group-Process Solutions That Backfire\u003cbr\u003e Class Speech Differences II: Abstract and Concrete Vocabulary\u003cbr\u003e Class Speech Differences III: Racial Terms\u003cbr\u003e 7. Diversity Ironies: Clashing Antiracism Frames and Practices\u003cbr\u003e Class Speech Differences IV: Talking Long, Talking Often\u003cbr\u003e 8. Overtalkers: Coping with the Universal Pet Peeve\u003cbr\u003e Class Speech Differences V: Anger, Swearing, and Insults\u003cbr\u003e 9. Activists Behaving Badly: Responses to Extreme Behavior Violations\u003cbr\u003e Class Speech Differences VI: Missing Class Talk\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Building a Movement with the Strengths of All Class Cultures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"ILR Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52541785702680,"sku":"9780801452567","price":68.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/missing-class-strengthening-social-movement-groups-by-seeing-class-cultures-hardback-9780801452567","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}