Reclaiming America : Nike, clean air, and the new national activism / Randy Shaw.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 312 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520922556
- 0520922557
- 0585273243
- 9780585273242
- Social action -- United States
- Community organization -- United States
- Political participation -- United States
- Action sociale -- �Etats-Unis
- Organisation communautaire -- �Etats-Unis
- Participation politique -- �Etats-Unis
- Mouvements sociaux -- �Etats-Unis
- R�esistance au gouvernement -- �Etats-Unis
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services
- Community organization
- Political participation
- Social action
- United States
- Social Conditions
- Sociology & Social History
- Social Sciences
- 361.2 21
- HN65 .S484 1999eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-306) and index.
pt. 1. Reclaiming America outside the electoral process: national anti-sweatshop campaigns and the movement for a living wage. 1. Just don't buy it: challenging Nike and the rules of the global economy. 2. From challenging American sweatshops to a movement for a global living wage -- pt. 2. Reclaiming America through the political process: national environmental activism and the Pentagon redirection campaign. 3. The new national environmental activism. 4. The Pentagon: reclaiming America by giving peace a chance -- pt. 3. Resources for national activism: community-based organizations, the media, and the Internet. 5. Community-based nonprofit organizations: from demobilizers to agents of change. 6. The media: mobilizing through the echo effect.
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