ATLANTA: LOCAL INITIATIVE COMBINES WITH NATIONAL SUPPORT

  1. Tom Karson*

Article first published online: 5 MAR 2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-4580.2006.00138.x

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Volume 10, Issue 1, pages 27–45, March 2007

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Karson, T. (2007), ATLANTA: LOCAL INITIATIVE COMBINES WITH NATIONAL SUPPORT. WorkingUSA, 10: 27–45. doi: 10.1111/j.1743-4580.2006.00138.x

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  1. University of Arkansas at Little Rock

*Tom Karson, Labor Education Program, Room 405 Reynolds Bldg, College of Business, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 South University Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72205. Telephone: (501) 569-8479. E-mail: tdkarson@ualr.edu.

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For over a decade the Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council has had a reputation as an activist council engaged in innovative coalition building. Looking to build on this work and learning from the power-building experiences in California and elsewhere, the Council founded the nonprofit Georgia Stand-Up in 2005. The new organization immediately leaped into coalition work around Atlanta's massive new economic development initiative—the BeltLine Project. This article looks at how local leadership was able to combine seeds laid by prior work with national support to produce a dynamic example of the new second generation of regional power building.

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