Introduction: Enter the 99 Percent
Chapter 1. Occupy before Occupy
Chapter 2. Organizing for Occupation
Chapter 3. Taking Liberty Square
Chapter 4. Crossing Brooklyn Bridge
Chapter 5. Escalation to Eviction
Chapter 6. The Occupiers in Exile
Chapter 7. Otherwise Occupied
Chapter 8. Spring Forward, Fall Back
Conclusion: Between Past and Future
Notes
References
Index
Michael Gould-Wartofsky is a PhD candidate in Sociology at New York University, and holds a BA in Government from Harvard University. Gould-Wartofsky was one of the first social scientists on the ground at Occupy Wall Street on Sept 17, 2011, beginning his inquiry then and continuing uninterrupted ever since. He has written for The Nation, Monthly Review, Salon, and Mother Jones.
"A valuable view of the explosive movement that gave voice to
outrage over our new gilded age." -Kirkus Review
"An action-packed, highly readable, sophisticated analysis of the
multi-layered origins, the complicated inner workings, and the both
sad and hopeful outcomes of the Occupy movement. I couldn't put it
down." -Jane Mansbridge, Harvard University
"Michael Gould-Wartofsky's thorough, level-headed and fair-minded
account of Occupy Wall Street pulls together evidence from many
quarters, including his own on-the-ground experience, and should
prove clarifying for all past and future Occupiers."-Todd Gitlin,
author of Occupy Nation
"Beautifully written, carefully researched, Gould-Wartofsky
presents a blow-by-blow insider account of the origins, trajectory,
and dispersion of the Occupy movement. In dissecting Occupy's
internal divisions and the mighty forces arrayed against it,
Gould-Wartofsky shows the resilience as well as the destructiveness
of capitalism. A must-read for anyone interested in contemporary
social movements."-Michael Burawoy, University of California,
Berkeley
"Michael Gould-Wartofsky gives us a brilliant exploration of the
Occupy movement. He positions the thick micro-worlds that
constituted the movement in a larger historical process - not
lineal but transversally crossed by triumphs and evictions,
harmonies and disagreements. He signals a possibility, and I would
agree with it, that just because the occupations have ceased the
larger politico-social project has not necessarily ended." -Saskia
Sassen, author of
Expulsions
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