ABSTRACT
The purpose of creating a network of interconnected and similarly directed actors like that described in the preceding chapters, of course, is to put it to work. And that is precisely what the Progressives have done, at both the tactical and the strategic levels. In the present chapter, we explore the tactical use of this networking to achieve relatively narrowly defined objectives. In the next and concluding chapter, we take a much broader view, suggesting that strategic networking has provided the means to achieve the movementbuilding end of constructing what amounts to an “out-of-power elite” and has done so in ways that are reframing the role of the corporation in American (and global) society.
