| Description |
xvii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Part 1: Origins -- On the origins of social movements / Jo Freeman -- Part 2: Mobilization -- Mobilization of membership : the black and brown lung movements / Bennett M. Judkins -- The transformation of a constituency into a movement : farmworker organizing in California / J. Craig Jenkins -- The men's movement : personal versus political / Alan E. Gross, Ronald Smith, Barbara Stradler Wallston -- Mobilizing the disabled / Roberta Ann Johnson -- Protest and the problem of credibility : uses of knowledge and risk taking in the draft resistance movement of th 1960s / Barrie Thorne -- Part 3: Organization -- A decentralized but moving pyramid : the evolution and consequences of the structure of the tenant movement / Ronald Lawson -- Movements of revolutionary change : some structural characteristics / Luther P. Gerlach -- Structure and strategy in the antinuclear movement / Lynn E. Dwyer -- Countercultural organizations and bureaucracy : limits on the revolution / Leonard Davidson -- Generational change and primary groups in a social movement / Robert J. Ross -- Part 4: Strategy -- A model for analyzing the strategic options of social movement organizations / Jo Freeman -- Organization or disruption? Strategic options for marginal groups : the case of the Chicago Indian Village / Deborah LeVeen -- The social context of strategic success : a land-use struggle in Hawaii / James A. Geschwender -- The use of terrorism by American social movements / Ernest Evans -- Conservative tactics in social movement organizations / David P. Gillespie -- Part 5: Decline -- The end of SDS and the emergence of Weatherman : demise through success / Frederick D. Miller -- The decline of the civil rights movement / Douglas McAdam -- The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee : rise and fall of a redemptive organization / Emily Stoper -- Repression and the decline of social movements : the case of the new religions / David G. Bromley and Anson D. Shupe, Jr. -- The New York City transit strike of 1980 : a case study of organizing a movement within an institutionalised social movement / Steve Burghardt |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Social movements -- United States -- History.
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| Author |
Freeman, Jo.
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| LC no. |
81018586 |
| ISBN |
0582280915 (paperback) |
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