Activism, inc.; how the outsourcing of grassroots campaigns is strangling progressive politics in America.9780804752176 Activism, inc.; how the outsourcing of grassroots campaigns is strangling progressive politics in America. Fisher, Dana R. Stanford U. Press 2006 149 pages $24.95 Hardcover JK1764 In business, outsourcing has led to declining jobs in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and greater work insecurity. In government, it has led to a failed response to the Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. disaster and to the Walter Reed Noun 1. Walter Reed - United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)Reed veteran medical scandal. Now, as Fisher (sociology, Columbia U.) shows in this book, it has apparently spread to the grassroots campaigns of such organizations as Greenpeace, the Sierra Club Sierra Club, national organization in the United States dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the world's parks, wildlife, and wilderness areas. Founded (1892) in California by a group led by the Scottish-American conservationist John Muir, the Sierra Club , Save the Children, and the Human Rights Campaign, who have begun outsourcing many of their canvassing activities to an organization called the People's Project, which has now also spun of a for-profit form that has run fundraising canvasses for the Democratic Party. She offers a portrait of the People's Project that is reconstructed re·con·struct tr.v. re·con·struct·ed, re·con·struct·ing, re·con·structs 1. To construct again; rebuild. 2. from interviews with the canvassers it has hired in different regional areas, representatives of the national groups that have the services of the People's Project, and political consultants who had worked on the 2004 presidential campaign. She also interviewed people who had worked on the campaign to reelect re·e·lect also re-e·lect tr.v. re·e·lect·ed, re·e·lect·ing, re·e·lects To elect again. re President Bush in order to compare the tactics deployed by the political right, which she finds to be more firmly grounded in the local. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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