Polletta, Francesca. <br/><br/>
Freedom is an endless meeting :  democracy in American social movements / 
Francesca Polletta. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  (c)2002. 
 - 1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) :  illustrations 
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<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Strategy and democracy --  Army, town meeting, or church in the Catacombs? --  The organization of American protest, 1900-1960 --  A band of brothers standing in a circle of trust: Southern civil rights organizing, 1961-64 --  Letting which people decide what? SNCC's crisis of democracy, 1964-65 --  Participatory democracy in the New Left, 1960-67 --  Friendship and equality in the women's liberation movement, 1967-77 --  Democracy in relationship: Community organizing and direct action today --  Rules, rituals, and relationships. 
<br/><br/> Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta challenges the conventional wisdom that participatory democracy is worthy in purpose but unworkable in practice. Instead, she shows that social movements have often used bottom-up decision making as a powerful tool for political change. Polletta traces the history of democracy in early labor struggles and pre-World War II pacifism, in the. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226924281 9780226674483 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002020615 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA380287  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>000023349802  AU 0226674487.  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social movements--United States.<br/>Community organization--United States.<br/>Political participation--United States.<br/>Group decision making--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN57  / .F744 2002