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Spadework
Spadework meaning
Work done by digging with a spade. | Work done in preparation for something else.
Synonyms of Spadework
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And we learned after the fact that what we saw there, and I hope through this book, is who we would have seen if we had been able to do all that spadework in that tight window in 2016.
Social movement organizers can labor for years in relative quiet, carrying out the long-term “spadework” — as civil rights icon Ella Baker called it — of consciousness raising, leadership development and building organizational structure.