| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 305 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Marxism and social movements: reconstructed, post-, and new social movements -- Marxism and the Occupy movement -- Overview of Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Philadelphia -- The occupying context: history and the macro context -- The proximate context -- Organizational structures; hierarchies and power; autonomy and authenticities in Occupy -- Ideologies and the conflicts of humanism and rationality -- Schisms part one -- race, liberals and anarchy -- Schisms part two -- more ideological divides -- Relations with the outside -- The many faces of framing -- Emergent craziness: frustrations, hope, and trust -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book is a critical, participant observation study of the Philadelphia branch of the Occupy Wall Street social movement. It uses a revisionist Marxist framework, informed by critical theory, to understand and explain the organization and activities of this protest group |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 22, 2017) |
| Subject |
Occupy movement -- United States
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Social movements -- United States
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Marxian school of sociology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Marxian school of sociology.
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Occupy movement.
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Social movements.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017047368 |
| ISBN |
9781498548434 |
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1498548431 |
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