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The next new left : a history of the future / Alan Sears.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sears, Alan, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social movements--History.
- Social movements.
- History.
- Protest movements--History.
- Protest movements.
- Right and left (Political science)--History.
- Right and left (Political science).
- Neoliberalism--History.
- Neoliberalism.
- Anti-globalization movement.
- New Left.
- Radicalism.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 134 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, [2014]
- Summary:
- The Next New Left explores the challenges of activist renewal in the age of austerity. Over the past few decades, state policy-makers and employers have engaged in a massive process of neoliberal restructuring that has undermined the basis for social and labour movements. In this book, Alan Sears explores the social environment that made activist mobilization possible - and was largely taken for granted - during the twentieth century. Just as the neoliberal era has restructured the very foundations of our lives, so too has it undermined the previously existing infrastructure of dissent. By examining social movements of the past, Sears's analysis focuses on the means through which activists develop the capacity for solidarity, communication and shared analysis, providing readers with possibilities for a resurgence of activism in response to the deteriorating living conditions caused by the ongoing austerity offensive. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 What's Left in the Age of Austerity? 1
- Infrastructures of Dissent 4
- Counter-Power 6
- The Need for a New Left 9
- Models of Anti-Capitalist Organizing 11
- Dimensions of Infrastructure 14
- Locating this Book 23
- Activist Knowledge and Formal Writing 24
- 2 Mass Insurgency in the 1930s-1940s 29
- The 1945 Windsor Ford Strike 29
- The Capacities for Mass Insurgency 32
- Direct Action at Work 34
- Community and Culture 41
- Political Projects 48
- 3 Making a New Left in the 1960s-1970s 53
- The Decline of Radicalism 53
- A New Normal 54
- Restructuring Race 58
- Private Utopias 59
- Work Reorganization 61
- Mcarthyism and Repression 64
- Left Counter-Currents 65
- Anticipating the New Left 67
- Continuity and Discontinuity in the Rise of a New Left 71
- Magic in the Air: The Return of Mass Insurgency 73
- 4 The Lean Years 85
- Twilight of the Postwar Settlement 85
- Breaking the Accord 87
- Rise of the New Right 89
- Workplace Restructuring 91
- Social Policy and the Lean State 93
- Spatial Reorganization 95
- Movements in Counter-Flow 96
- 5 Towards the Next New Left 98
- Seeking the Next New Left 101
- The Revolt of the Young 102
- Democracy in Question 105
- Audacity in Vision 108
- Integrative Liberation Politics 110
- A Learning Left 111
- Towards a Mainstream Anti-Capitalism 115.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1552666646
- 9781552666647
- OCLC:
- 869584570
- Publisher Number:
- 99963796451
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