Organizing
Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy
Naila Kabeer, Ratna Sudarshan and Kirsty Milward edited “Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak” (2013), which presents a series of cases from around the world. The book “shifts the analytical focus from individual women engaged in these informal forms of work to organizations that have set out to […]
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Rules for Revolutionaries
Want a post-internet, post-elitist update to Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals“? Here it is: “Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything” (2016) by Becky Bond and Zack Exley. The book is about ‘big organizing’ which the authors say “isn’t just about the effective use of the newest technology to scale participation in politics. As […]
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About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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