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Author: John S. Ahlquist ,
Margaret Levi
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.567kg
ISBN: 9780691158563
ISBN 10: 0691158568
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 08 September 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
Ahlquist and Levi are able to show how the ILWU was able and remains able to transcend the life trajectory of its founding leader, Harry Bridges, and establish and maintain a commitment to social activism, political mobilization, and an expanded community of fate. Those who wish to move the labor movement toward this vision of social movement unionism would do well to examine this work for its insights. --Jacob Lesniewski, Social Service Review
Co-Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, The Labor Project of the American Political Science Association Ahlquist and Levi are able to show how the ILWU was able and remains able to transcend the life trajectory of its founding leader, Harry Bridges, and establish and maintain a commitment to social activism, political mobilization, and an expanded community of fate. Those who wish to move the labor movement toward this vision of social movement unionism would do well to examine this work for its insights. --Jacob Lesniewski, Social Service Review The study is an interesting and convincing discussion of why an organization may expand its interests and even support causes or ideas that seem to violate the self-interests of its members. It should add significantly to both the literature on collective action and institutional choice. --Choice
Co-Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, The Labor Project of the American Political Science Association ""Ahlquist and Levi are able to show how the ILWU was able and remains able to transcend the life trajectory of its founding leader, Harry Bridges, and establish and maintain a commitment to social activism, political mobilization, and an expanded community of fate. Those who wish to move the labor movement toward this vision of social movement unionism would do well to examine this work for its insights.""--Jacob Lesniewski, Social Service Review ""The study is an interesting and convincing discussion of why an organization may expand its interests and even support causes or ideas that seem to violate the self-interests of its members. It should add significantly to both the literature on collective action and institutional choice.""--Choice ""This is an impressive book that sheds light on an important but poorly understood topic: Why do some organizations engage in solidaristic behavior to promote wider social justice issues, while others focus narrowly on the self-interest of their members?""--Evelyne Huber, Perspectives on Politics ""The book is quite brilliant in terms of the rigor of its analytic argument and its use of a variety of methods to test and further revise core assumptions... The book is itself a major achievement of collective (research) action to which anyone working on these kinds of questions ought to pay special attention.""--Carmen Sirianni, Perspectives on Politics ""An essential part of any trade union program preparing people for leadership roles.""--Rowan Cahill, Labour History
Author Information
John S. Ahlquist is the Lyons Family Faculty Scholar and associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Margaret Levi is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington and Foundational Chair in Politics at the University of Sydney's United States Studies Centre.
