The next new Left : the history of the future /

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Author / Creator:Sears, Alan, 1956- author.
Imprint:Black Point, Nova Scotia : Fernwood Publishing, [2014]
Description:viii, 134 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9984238
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ISBN:9781552666647 (pbk.)
1552666646 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. What's Left in the Age of Austerity?
  • Infrastructures of Dissent
  • Counter-Power
  • The Need for a New Left
  • Models of Anti-Capitalist Organizing
  • Dimensions of Infrastructure
  • Locating this Book
  • Activist Knowledge and Formal Writing
  • 2. Mass Insurgency in the 1930s-1940s
  • The 1945 Windsor Ford Strike
  • The Capacities for Mass Insurgency
  • Direct Action at Work
  • Community and Culture
  • Political Projects
  • 3. Making a New Left in the 1960s-1970s
  • The Decline of Radicalism
  • A New Normal
  • Restructuring Race
  • Private Utopias
  • Work Reorganization
  • Mcarthyism and Repression
  • Left Counter-Currents
  • Anticipating the New Left
  • Continuity and Discontinuity in the Rise of a New Left
  • Magic in the Air: The Return of Mass Insurgency
  • 4. The Lean Years
  • Twilight of the Postwar Settlement
  • Breaking the Accord
  • Rise of the New Right
  • Workplace Restructuring
  • Social Policy and the Lean State
  • Spatial Reorganization
  • Movements in Counter-Flow
  • 5. Towards the Next New Left
  • Seeking the Next New Left
  • The Revolt of the Young
  • Democracy in Question
  • Audacity in Vision
  • Integrative Liberation Politics
  • A Learning Left
  • Towards a Mainstream Anti-Capitalism
  • References
  • Index