The Civil Rights-Black Power Era, Direct Action, and Defensive Violence: Lessons for the Working-Class Today.
The Civil Rights Movement (CRM) is re-examined to provide lessons for a renewed labor movement in this age of globalization and the accompanying obliteration of both labor and basic human rights. It is argued that the CRM was successful not because of non-violent civil disobedience. Instead, radical...
| Publicado en: | Theory in Action Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 42 - 63 |
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Transformative Studies Institute
2010
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