This essay examines the process of the redefinition of American liberalism by the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), which has been the foundation of the community organizing method since the 20th century, through a case study of the Living Wage campaign. The IAF was founded in 1940 by Saul Alinsky, who established the method of community organization, which improved the living environment of economically and socially marginalized communities. Alinsky’s democratic idea paved the way for such communities to develop a public sphere by combining biblical or church language and the workplace from the 1930s to the 1960s. Although the concept of living wage―that every full time worker should be paid enough to support a family―arose from the deep roots in biblical, Roman Catholic, and Protestant thoughts, which the progressive movement activists advocated, it could not be legislated even in the New Deal era. However, community organizers who inherited Alinsky’s idea searched for social justice in American liberalism, which led to the success of the living wage campaign from the 1990s onwards. This enlightened public sphere manifests the coalition of religions; furthermore, communities may develop a new phase of grassroots democracy, which may overcome the disadvantages of the liberal tradition observed by Louis Hartz.
内容記述
論文
Articles
雑誌名
アメリカ太平洋研究 = Pacific and American studies
巻
18
ページ
116 - 132
発行年
2018-03
ISSN
13462989
書誌レコードID
AA11562201
著者版フラグ
publisher
出版者
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属グローバル地域研究機構アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
出版者別名
Center for Pacific and American Studies, Institute for Advanced Global Studies, The University of Tokyo
コミュニティ・オーガナイジングとリベラリズムへの挑戦 : 産業地域財団による生活賃金運動をめぐって
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