Taking the high road : communities organize for economic change

Machine generated contents note: List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paving the High Road; Closing the Low Road -- Part I-European Social Democracy Points Toward the High Road -- 1 Social Citizenship: Lessons from Sweden -- 2 Associative Democracy: Lessons from Europe's German Powerhouse -- 3 Social Partnership and Social Ownership: Lessons from Austria -- 4 Confronting "Globalization" and the New Capitalist Agenda -- 5 Facing the Ecological Crisis: The Meaning of Green Politics -- 6 The Progressive Potential in the United States: Liberal Confinement -- and Radical Renewal -- Part II-Organizing for the High Road at Home -- 7 The Living Wage Movement Sweeps the Nation! -- 8 Building a High-Road Agenda: Examples from Wisconsin -- 9 State Campaigns for Economic Justice -- 10 The New Labor Movement -- 11 Melding Environmental and Social Justice Activism: The Emerging Battle -- Against Sprawl -- 12 Toward a National Movement -- 13 Progressive Electoral Politics -- Notes -- Annotated Bibliography and Contacts -- Index -- About the Author