Freedom is an endless meeting : democracy in American social movements

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Freedom is an endless meeting : democracy in American social movements

Title remainder

democracy in American social movements

Statement of responsibility

Francesca Polletta

Creator

• Polletta, Francesca

Subject

• Community organization -- United States
• Group decision making -- United States
• Political participation -- United States
• Social movements -- United States

Language

eng

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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Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

303.48/4/0973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HN57

LC item number

.P65 2002eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

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• bibliography