
Save the Humans?
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We the people of the world are creating the conditions for our own self-extermination, whether through the bang of a nuclear holocaust or the whimper of an expiring ecosphere. Today our individual self-preservation depends on common preservation-cooperation to provide for our mutual survival and well-being.
For half a century Jeremy Brecher has been studying and participating in social movements that have created new forms of common preservation. Through entertaining storytelling and personal narrative, Save the Humans? provides a unique and revealing interpretation of how social movements arise and how they change the world. Brecher traces a path that leads from the sitdown strikes on the pyramids of ancient Egypt through America's mass strikes and labor revolts to the struggle against economic globalization to today's battles against climate change.
Weaving together personal experience, scholarly research, and historical interpretation, Jeremy Brecher shows how we can construct a "human survival movement" that could "save the humans." He sums up the theme of this book: "I have seen common preservation-and it works." For those seeking an understanding of social movements and an alternative to denial and despair, there is simply no better place to look than Save the Humans?
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Jeremy Brecher has participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, civil rights, peace, international labor rights, global economic justice, accountability for war crimes, climate protection, and many others. He is the author of fifteen books on labor and social movements, including the national best seller Strike! He has received five regional Emmy awards for his documentary film work. He is currently policy and research director for the Labor Network for Sustainability.
Content
- Cover
- Half title page
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: What I Did While I Was Waiting for Doom
- Prologue: March Like an Egyptian
- Introduction
- Part 1: Discovering Social Problems
- 1: Discovering Social Problems
- 2: Kiss Your Ass Goodbye
- 3: This Way for the Gass
- 4: McCarthyism
- 5: Race Relations
- 6: Quiet Desperation
- 7: The Web of Life
- 8: The Start of a Quest
- Part 2: Discovering Social Movements
- 9: Discovering Social Movements
- 10: Doctor Spock Is Worried
- 11: Peace How?
- 12: Social Roots of War
- 13: Solidarity-Ever?
- 14: Eyes on the Prize
- 15: SDS
- 16: Participatory Democracy
- 17: Women's Liberation
- 18: 'Nam
- 19: A Realm of New Possibilities
- Part 3: Discovering Workers Power
- 20: Discovering Workers Power
- 21: Great Upheavals
- 22: If They Can Do It, Why Can't We?
- 23: General Strike Against War?
- 24: Strike!
- 25: Sit-Down
- 26: Interpreting Mass Strikes
- 27: Class and Power
- 28: Workers Power
- 29: The Work Group
- 30: "Whatever Happened to the Unions?"
- 31: "Spreading by Contagion"
- 32: The Challenge to Authority
- 33: Solidarity
- 34: Self-Management
- 35: You Say You Want a Revolution?
- 36: Beyond Reductionism
- 37: Class and Beyond
- Part 4: Discovering Globalization from Below
- 38: Discovering Globalization from Below
- 39: Constructing Wholes
- 40: The Relativity of Boundaries
- 41: Constructing an Account
- 42: Domination
- 43: Disorder
- 44: Differentiation and Integration
- 45: Responding to Change
- 46: De-Centering
- 47: Power and Dependence
- 48: Solving Problems
- 49: Globalization and Its Crisis
- Part 5: Human Preservation
- 50: Human Preservation
- 51: Mutual (but Hopefully Not Yet Assured) Destruction
- 52: Doom and Gloom
- 53: An Ecological Shift
- 54: Self-Organization for Common Preservation
- 55: A Human Preservation Movement?
- 56: Emergence and Convergence
- 57: Changing to Survive
- 58: The Power of the Powerless
- 59: Guidelines for Human Preservationists
- 60: A Protracted Struggle in an Era ofTurmoil
- Conclusion: Common Preservation
- L'Envoy
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
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