Items20The creator’s order
  1. 1No shortcuts (2016)No shortcuts (2016) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2016McAlevey distinguishes organising a broad base from mobilising people who already agree. Her case studies put workers' participation, rather than the organiser's charisma, at the centre of power. It is a demanding, argumentative starting point if frustration has turned into another meeting with the…0
  2. 2Rules to Win By (2023)Rules to Win By (2023)Published 1 Jan 2023Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor examine negotiations in which members participate directly in strategy and bargaining. Building strength is followed by the question of who gets to exercise it at the table. Read this alongside No Shortcuts if you want to connect democratic participation to the…0i
  3. 3Power in coalition (2010)Power in coalition (2010)Published 1 Jan 2010What makes an alliance more than several organisations adding their names to a statement? Tattersall compares union-community campaigns in Australia, Canada and the United States, examining the relationships and choices that make collective strength possible. The contrasting cases are useful when…0
  4. 4Hired (2018)Hired (2018)Published 1 Jan 2018Bloodworth's undercover reporting follows low-paid jobs in Britain, including warehouse and care work. The concrete pressures of monitoring, insecure hours and exhaustion connect private frustration to how a workplace is organised. Read it as a report from the period of its investigation, with a…0i
  5. 5Hope Dies Last (2003)Hope Dies Last (2003)Published 1 Jan 2003When public anger has become private exhaustion, try one of Terkel's interviews with people who have continued taking a stand. Their different sources of commitment make persistence something to explore in particular lives. The collection ranges beyond people who share one politics, giving a tired…0
  6. 6Nickel and Dimed (2001)Nickel and Dimed (2001) 7.2/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2001Ehrenreich takes low-wage American jobs and follows the practical difficulties of making earnings cover a life. Her wit makes the gap between respectable advice and exhausting reality painfully clear. This is an account of work undertaken around the turn of the century, not a current wage survey.…0
  7. 7Poverty, by America (2023)Poverty, by America (2023) 8.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2023Desmond asks how people with comfortable lives can benefit from arrangements that keep others poor. Moving between reporting, history and argument, he makes poverty a question about distribution and choices rather than an unexplained condition elsewhere. The American focus is explicit and the…0
  8. 8Sum of Us (2021)Sum of Us (2021)Published 1 Jan 2021McGhee examines how racism can damage shared public provision, and what people gain when they organise across racial divisions. Historical examples sit beside reporting on attempts to build common interests. That combination helps turn anger away from an abstract appeal for togetherness and towards…0
  9. 9Sister Outsider (1984)Sister Outsider (1984) 9.4/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1984Lorde's essays and speeches refuse the idea that a movement becomes stronger by asking people to silence their differences. The Uses of Anger is a particularly direct starting point for thinking about racism, defensiveness and what anger can communicate. These are precise interventions by a Black…0
  10. 10Let This Radicalize You (2023)Let This Radicalize You (2023)Published 1 Jan 2023Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba connect reciprocal care to the practical demands of organised resistance. Reflections, interviews and questions examine what allows people to continue working together when urgency threatens to consume them. Their emphasis on relationships makes this particularly useful…0