ABSTRACT

Save the Humans? argues that individual self-interest depends on common preservation - cooperation to provide for mutual well-being. As world leaders fail to cooperate to address climate change, nuclear proliferation, economic meltdown and other threats to our survival, increasing numbers of people experience a pervasive sense of denial and despair. But Jeremy Brecher has seen common preservation in action, and in Save the Humans? he shows how it works. From Gandhi's civil disobedience campaigns in India, to the 2011 uprisings throughout the Middle East, Brecher shows what we can learn from past social movements to help us confront today's global threats.

chapter |4 pages

Prologue: March Like an Egyptian

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

part |1 pages

Part 1: Discovering Social Problems

chapter 1|2 pages

Discovering Social Problems

chapter 2|2 pages

Kiss Your Ass Goodbye

chapter 3|2 pages

This Way for the Gas

chapter 4|3 pages

McCarthyism 23

chapter 5|3 pages

Race Relations

chapter 6|2 pages

Quiet Desperation

chapter 7|3 pages

The Web of Life

chapter 8|2 pages

The Start of a Quest

part |1 pages

Part 2: Discovering Social Movements

chapter 9|2 pages

Discovering Social Movements

chapter 10|5 pages

Doctor Spock Is Worried

chapter 11|4 pages

Peace How?

chapter 12|3 pages

Social Roots of War

chapter 13|4 pages

Solidarity—Ever?

chapter 14|6 pages

Eyes on the Prize

chapter 15|5 pages

SDS

chapter 16|5 pages

Participatory Democracy

chapter 17|3 pages

Women’s Liberation

chapter 18|7 pages

’Nam

chapter 19|5 pages

A Realm of New Possibilities

part |1 pages

Part 3: Discovering Workers Power

chapter 20|2 pages

Discovering Workers Power

chapter 21|3 pages

Great Upheavals

chapter 22|4 pages

If They Can Do It, Why Can’t We?

chapter 23|3 pages

General Strike Against War? 96

chapter 24|2 pages

Strike!

chapter 25|4 pages

Sit-Down

chapter 26|4 pages

Interpreting Mass Strikes

chapter 27|3 pages

Class and Power: The Keys to the Workshop

chapter 28|2 pages

Workers Power

chapter 30|3 pages

“Whatever Happened to the Unions?”

chapter 31|4 pages

“Spreading by Contagion”

chapter 32|2 pages

The Challenge to Authority

chapter 33|2 pages

Solidarity

chapter 34|3 pages

Self-Management

chapter 35|3 pages

You Say You Want a Revolution?

chapter 37|3 pages

Class and Beyond

part |1 pages

Part 4: Discovering Globalization from Below

chapter 38|4 pages

Discovering Globalization from Below

chapter 43|2 pages

Disorder: Unintended Consequences

chapter 46|7 pages

De-Centering: Globalization from Below

chapter 49|2 pages

Globalization and Its Crisis

part |1 pages

Part 5: Human Preservation

chapter 50|2 pages

Human Preservation

chapter 52|2 pages

Doom and Gloom

chapter 53|3 pages

An Ecological Shift

chapter 54|3 pages

Self-Organization for Common Preservation

chapter 55|4 pages

A Human Preservation Movement?

chapter 56|3 pages

Emergence and Convergence

chapter 57|5 pages

Changing to Survive

chapter 58|4 pages

The Power of the Powerless

chapter 59|4 pages

Guidelines for Human Preservationists

chapter 60|3 pages

A Protracted Struggle in an Era of Turmoil

chapter |2 pages

Conclusion: Common Preservation

chapter L|1 pages

L’Envoy

chapter |11 pages

Notes

chapter |13 pages

Index

chapter |1 pages

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