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1 The Practical Utopians

The Practical Utopians
American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age

By Steve Leikin
Published 2005
$44.95s (Cloth) - 9780814331286

An exploration of the ideological conflicts and practical experiences of late-nineteenth-century American workers who pursued "cooperation" as an alternative to "competitive" capitalism.

2 A Wobbly Life

A Wobbly Life
IWW Organizer E. F. Doree

By Ellen Doree Rosen
Introduction by Melvyn Dubofsky
Published 2004
$36.95s (Paper) - 9780814332030

Through personal letters and narrative, A Wobbly Life details the life, imprisonment, and eventual freedom of one of the last and most important Industrial Workers of the World voices.

3  Critical Evaluations of Economic Development Policies

Critical Evaluations of Economic Development Policies
Edited by Laura A. Reese and David Fasenfest
Published 2004
$47.95s (Cloth) - 9780814329009

This ground-breaking text offers alternative models for critical evaluation of the values behind and the success of local-level economic development policies.

4  Community-Based Organizations

Community-Based Organizations
The Intersection of Social Capital and Local Context in Contemporary Urban Society

Edited by Robert Mark Silverman
Published 2004
$36.95s (Paper) - 9780814331576

A critical examination of the social capital debate, which establishes a foundation for progressive reform in community development practice and local government.

5  Civic Culture and Urban Change

Civic Culture and Urban Change
Governing Dallas

By Royce Hanson
Published 2003
$41.95s (Cloth) - 9780814330807

A study of how civic culture shaped policy responses to the demographic and economic transformations of Dallas, Texas.

6  Defending Rights

Defending Rights
Law, Labor Politics, and the State in California, 1890-1925

By Thomas R. Clark
Published 2002
$42.95s (Cloth) - 9780814330432

By focusing on the impact of the judiciary at the state level, Defending Rights brings a new perspective to revisionist work on the union movement’s political activism during the Progressive Era.

7  My World Is Gone

My World Is Gone
Memories of Life in a Southern Cotton Mill Town

By George G. Suggs, Jr.
Published 2002
$41.95s (Cloth) - 9780814330357

In this firsthand account of his native Bladenboro, North Carolina, George G. Suggs, Jr., captures in rich detail the world of a thriving cotton mill town where the company was dominant but workers had forged a strong community.

8  Fighting for Social Justice

Fighting for Social Justice
The Life Story of David Burgess

By David S. Burgess
Foreword by Bill Moyers
Published 2000
$39.95s (Cloth) - 9780814328996

Fighting for Social Justice is the memoir of a man committed to achieving social justice for the poor.

9  When Corporations Leave Town

When Corporations Leave Town
The Costs and Benefits of Metropolitan Job Sprawl

By Joseph Persky and Wim Wiewel
Published 2000
$22.95t (Paper) - 9780814329085

When Corporations Leave Town presents new and challenging arguments and solutions surrounding the current political debates about deconcentration.

10  Radical Education in the Rural South

Radical Education in the Rural South
Commonwealth College, 1923-1940

By William H. Cobb
Published 2000
$39.95s (Cloth) - 9780814327739

William H. Cobb illuminates the history of the extraordinary group of students and staff of Commonwealth College and the rich intellectual life produced on the self-sustaining communal farm in the Arkansas forest.

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