Jerry Kloby

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Jerry Kloby is a retired sociology professor and former vice president of his union’s local chapter. Dr. Kloby was also the director of the Institute for Community Studies and is the author of Inequality, Power, and Development (Prometheus/Random House), as well as other works.
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Organizers: There’s No Shortcut to Success

October 25, 2018 | Jerry Kloby

Overcoming the ideology of individualism and corporate power is achieved not through framing or advocacy but through the experience of collective struggle. A review of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey.

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The Local-Global Grassroots Connection

March 1, 2005 | Jerry Kloby

Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital, by James DeFilippis. Routledge, 2004. 188 pp. $24.95 (paperback). Contours of Descent, by Robert Pollin. Verso, 2003. 238 pp. $21.00 […]

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Civil Society and Democracy at Crossroads

January 1, 2000 | Jerry Kloby

A Place for Us: How To Make Society Civil and Democracy Strong by Benjamin Barber. Hill and Wang, 1998. 172 pp. Between the two great domains of power in the […]