Grossology by Sylvia Branzei

Grossology by Sylvia Branzei

The world today has no shortage of economic crises--or politicians and pundits who claim to have the vision that will get us out of the Great Recession. For 25 years, the labor-community coalition Jobs with Justice (JwJ) has endured the brutal vagaries of the global economy with a single alternative economic vision. By putting its ideas into practice, it has won powerful victories with working-class communities.

Through a series of interviews and essays, this book allows the community, labor, immigrant, student, and faith activists that have built Jobs with Justice to show us why their economic vision matters. They tell us why the organization's core principle--the power of solidarity between unions, community groups, and immigrant, student, and faith organizations--continues to drive its victories at the local, national, and international levels. They tell us how the belief in solidarity leads not only to short-term alliances, but also to transformed relationships and permanent coalitions. They tell us how it has led--and will lead--to concrete victories for social and economic justice.

Though the book reflects on the last 25 years of the Jobs with Justice coalition, it's very much directed at the next 25. It includes the perspectives of longtime national leaders like founder Larry Cohen, newcomers like Ai-Jen Poo of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and the locally-based, working-class men and women who have built JwJ from the ground up.

Sylvia Branzei is the author of Grossology, Animal Grossology, Grossology Begins at Home, Hands-On Grossology, and Virtual Grossology. She is the originator of grossology, or the idea of teaching science through gross things. Before devoting her life to grossness, Sylvia was a science teacher at a remote school in Mendocino County, California. She taught science to the entire school, from kindergarten through high school. Her writing experience includes coauthorship of The Soap Opera: Science on Stage Anthology, a play about the chemistry of soap. She authored several articles that appeared in The Science Teacher, Science Scope, Partners in Education, and Creation Spirituality. She wrote curriculum guides for NASA SETI and for the Department of Energy. Sylvia received her BS degree in microbiology from the University of Michigan in 1980. She received her MA degree in science education from California Polytechnic University in 1986.

Jack Keely is an illustrator whose works include Dressing Up, Animal Friends, Ickstory, and Grossology.

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ISBN 13	9780201409642
ISBN 10	020140964X
Title	Grossology
Author	Sylvia Branzei
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Addison Wesley Longman (Higher Education Division, Pearson Education)
Year published	1996-03-28
Number of pages	80
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.