[Mobile ebook] Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (Polemics)
♛ Frances Fox Piven ♛
| #247993 in Books | Rowman Littlefield Publishers | 2008-07-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.19 x.47 x6.09l,.70 | File Name: 0742563162 | 200 pages |
||9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| A Primer for Social Change|By Paul Hosse|Not an especially volumious book at only 139 pages,including the Epilogue. Frances Fox Piven has written the definitive primer for those looking to organize and fight back. The book starts off with a brief introductory of the history of social movements and clarification of terms. Ms. Piven then dives in deep to explain how movements a||Challenging Authority is like a Molotov cocktail in an elegant crystal decanter. Piven deploys meticulous reasoning and wide-ranging research to show that social change comes ultimately from the disruptive actions of ordinary people―strikes, sit-ins,
Challenging Authority argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, they disrupt the workings of important institutions and become a force in American politics. Drawing on critical episodes in American history, Frances Fox Piven shows that it is...
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