Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies - Softcover

Bennett M. Judkins; J. Craig Jenkins; Roberta Ann Johnson; Barrie Thorne; Ronald Lawson; Luther P. Gerlach; Lynn E. Dwyer; Leonard Davidson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582280915 ISBN 13: 9780582280915

Publisher: Longman Inc., 1983

Synopsis

This unique anthology on social movements of the sixties synthesizes case history and theory to illuminate both. Traditional and emerging theoretical perspectives are presented and criticized. Movement actions were analyzed and alternatives assessed. Chapters are organized around key topics of concern to scholars and activists: Origins, Mobilization, Organization, Strategy, and Decline. Their authors have written an integrated volume whose contributions were assembled and edited to complement each other. Finally, the movements in this book are highly varied. They include national and local, radical and reform, infamous and obscure movements, social and religious efforts to change or prevent change in individuals, laws, values, and the entire social structure. The efforts of such groups as tenants, mine and mill workers, the disabled, draft resisters, transit workers, Chicago Indians, Hawaiian farmers, and California farmworkers are critically scrutinized, as are the ci

About this edition

• Publisher: Longman Inc.
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0582280915
• ISBN 13: 9780582280915
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 399
• Editor: Jo Freeman