Living Inside Our Hope: A Steadfast Radical's Thoughts on Rebuilding the Movement (ILR Press Books)
Lynd?who, with his wife, Alice, currently works as a Legal Services lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio?writes as an unrepentant New Left activist who favors the return of a militant radical movement in the United States. The Lynds combine their works with a strong commitment to historical analysis, rank-and-file trade unionism, and Quakerism. This book consists of politically committed essays linked by the author's distincitve brand of democratic socialism. Topics include the Civil Rights movment of the 1960s, the labor movement radicalism of the 1930s, the legacy of E.P. Thompson, and the prospects for rank-and-file mobilization in the age of globalism. In the opening chapter, Lynd also writes about his parents, the eminent sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd, who authored the classic study of Midwestern American values, Middletown (1959). The result is a provocative defense of ethically informed radicalism with a labor movement twist. Recommended for libraries with collections on labor, the Left, the 1960s, and/or American political thought.?Kent Worcester, Social Science Research Council, New YorkCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.