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CLASS MATTERS: CROSS-CLASS ALLIANCE BUILDING FOR MIDDLE CLASS ACTIVISTS
By Betsy Leondar-Wright
Based on interviews with 40 diverse activists and thinkers, this lively, highly readable guide helps readers build bridges across class lines and collaborate more effectively in mixed-class social change efforts. Full of stories, ideas, quotations, tips, and resources, it discusses frankly the politics of class, what gets in the way of cross-class alliances, and how effective alliances can be built.
New Society Publishers, paperback, 175 pages, 2005. $19.00 |
ECONOMICS EDUCATION: BUILDING A MOVEMENT FOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC JUSTICE
By Praxis/Economic Justice Project
Community activists, organizers, union members, women, mothers, students, teachersùanyone who is interested in learning more about the way the economy affects our lives should take a look at this book. We think it will be particularly useful to people who want to work with others to change some of the economic and social conditions that affect them. Those who are already facilitators may particularly find this book useful.
American Friends Service Committee, spiral bound, 90 pages, 2001. $13.00 |
SOLIDARITY ECONOMY: BUILDING ALTERNATIVES FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET
Edited by Jenna Allard, Carl Davidson, and Julie Matthaei
The Solidarity Economic Network is an international global grassroots movement creating forms of economic structural reform locally and globally. This book contains papers, discussions and debates on the topic from the U.S. Social Forum of 10,000 people in Atlanta in the summer of 2007. Changemaker Publications, Paperback, 441 pages, 2008. $25.00
NEW EDITION!
TEACHING ECONOMICS AS IF PEOPLE MATTERED
Tamara Sober Giecek with United for a Fair Economy
New edition with updated income and wealth statistics.
Field-tested by high school teachers, this innovative and accessible economics curriculum looks at the human implications of economic policies. Twenty-one lesson plans are designed to stimulate dialogue and encourage active student participation in the classroom. Also suitable for college courses, formal and informal adult education, and self study. Paperback, 182 pages, 2007. $20.00.
TEACHING FOR CHANGE: POPULAR EDUCATION AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT
Edited by Linda Delp, Miranda Kramer, Sue Schurman, Kent Wong
This is the first book to capture the stories and experiences of popular educators in the U.S. labor movement. From the Highlander Center in Tennessee to the Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angeles, from the National Labor College in Maryland to the Avondale Shipyard workers of Mississippi, - popular education has played a critical role in organizing workers, developing new leaders, and strengthening labor and community alliances.
UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education and the George Meany Center/National Labor College, paperback, 263 pages, 2002. $24.95 |
TODAY'S GLOBALIZATION: A TOOLKIT FOR POPULAR EDUCATION IN YOUR COMMUNITY
By Project South
Today's Globalization is fully updated to reflect the most current trends & events in the global economy. This popular education toolkit provides a concise and accessible examination of the historical root causes of corporate globalization and the social movements that have challenged it. The book includes sample workshops, interactive exercises, and a pull-out timeline.
Spiral bound, 77 pages, 2005. $20.00 |
TO MOVE A MOUNTAIN: FIGHTING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IN APPALACHIA
By Eve S. Weinbaum
To Move a Mountain is an inspirational account of how a group of Appalachian men and women, politicized by the disaster of local plant closings, became unlikely activists in the Tennessee statehouse and the protests in Seattle. Weinbaum's firsthand look at the devastation wrought by the closings of community-sustaining factories become moving stories in the age of corporate globalization. With striking portraits of managers, workers, organizers, and local officials, the book uncovers a government and economic leadership whose policies show little regard for the workers they leave behind. Yet despite the repeated defeat of the workers, an astonishingly fiery economic justice movement sprung up in Tennessee as factory workers transformed themselves into activists.
New Press, hardcover, 340 pages, 2003. $25.95
UNDER THE WORKERS' CAPS: FROM CHAMPION MILL TO BLUE RIDGE
By George Loveland.
In 1997, Champion International Paper, an industrial presence in North Carolina's Haywood County since 1908, put its paper mills in Canton and Waynesville up for sale. For the employees of Champion, this meant the prospect of an immediate loss of their incomes, livelihood, and way of life. Six men, however, refused to take their fate lying down. They did the unthinkable to save their jobs: they bought the company. This book gives an in-depth overview of the fight to save the mill jobs, and offers the reader a thorough understanding of the depth of Champion's involvement in the economy and community life of western North Carolina.
The University of Tennessee Press, hardcover, 199 pages, 2005. $29.00
UNPACKING GLOBALIZATION:A POPULAR EDUCATION TOOL KIT
By Economic Literacy Action Network
This publication, a product from the Economic Literacy Action Network (ELAN), is an exciting resource for people and groups struggling to tackle the impact of economic globalization. ELAN was founded in 1996 as a network of economic literacy and popular economic education groups working to build movements for social change.
ELAN, paperback, 145 pages, 2000. $25.00 |
A VERY POPULAR ECONOMIC EDUCATION SAMPLER
Compiled by Highlander Research and Education Center
The Sampler is designed to be used by community and labor-based groups, as well as popular economic educators. This book contains skits, role-plays, group building activities and methods for identifying and analyzing issues. Sections on honing group facilitation skills and creating activities and programs are included. It also includes a complete resource guide that lists many of the groups working on the cutting-edge of popular economic education.
Highlander Center, spiral bound, 380 pages, 1997. $30.00 |
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