Solutions to Social Problems from the Bottom Up
Successful Social Movements
Published on 16. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-205-46884-3 (ISBN)
Description
This brief reader examines a number of organized movements that have successfully brought about reform and change "from the bottom up."
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-46884-3 (9780205468843)
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Content
Preface
Chapter 1 Social Movements and Democracy
David S. Meyer, How Social Movements Matter
Howard Zinn, The Problem is Civil Obedience
Additional Readings
Chapter 2 Social Movements Advancing Toward Equality
Taylor Branch, The Sit-In Movement
Charles Wilson, Rosa Parks's Gift to the Disabled
Tina Gianoulis, Women's Liberation Movement
Wikipedia, Gay Rights
Living Wage Resource Center, The Living Wage Movement
Additional Readings
Chapter 3 Social Movements Promoting Democracy
Wikipedia, Dorr Rebellion
Akhil Reed Amar, How Women Won the Vote
Liza Cozzens, Mississippi and Freedom Summer
Bill Moyers, The Progressive Movement
Tom Hayden, Port Huron Statement
Additional Readings
Chapter 4 Social Movements That Promoted Corporate Social Responsibility
Michael Blanding, Coke: The New Nike
Adam D. Sacks, Rights Fight: Townships in Rural Pennsylvania Take on Factory Farms-and Corporate Rights
David Swanson, Flame-Broiled Shark [Acorn taking on the predatory lending practices of Household Finance]
Ricky Baldwin, Tomato Pickers Win Big at Taco Bell
Amy Joyce, Logging On With a New Campaign: Staffers Use Tactics Learned with Candidates to Pressure Wal-Mart
Additional Readings
Chapter 5 The Next Generation: Social Movements Promoting Social Justice in a Globalizing World
Brian Halwell, The Rise of Food Democracy
Kelly Hearn, Not a Drop to Drink [Bolivians protest successfully against the World Bank's privatization of their water supply]
Martin Khor, South Fights Back on Services at WTO [Leaders of relatively powerless nations take on the policies of the World Trade Organization]
Vandana Shiva, How to End Poverty: Making Poverty History and the History of Poverty [The ideology that inflames bottom up social movements in the globalizing world]
Additional Readings
Chapter 6 Involvement in Social Movements: The Importance of Citizen Activism
Sarah Ferguson, Cindy Sheehan and the Peace Movement
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Jose Bove and the Global Peasant Movement
Charles Bowden, Charlie Kenaghan, Keeper of the Fire [Student activism against sweatshop labor]
Additional Readings
Chapter 1 Social Movements and Democracy
David S. Meyer, How Social Movements Matter
Howard Zinn, The Problem is Civil Obedience
Additional Readings
Chapter 2 Social Movements Advancing Toward Equality
Taylor Branch, The Sit-In Movement
Charles Wilson, Rosa Parks's Gift to the Disabled
Tina Gianoulis, Women's Liberation Movement
Wikipedia, Gay Rights
Living Wage Resource Center, The Living Wage Movement
Additional Readings
Chapter 3 Social Movements Promoting Democracy
Wikipedia, Dorr Rebellion
Akhil Reed Amar, How Women Won the Vote
Liza Cozzens, Mississippi and Freedom Summer
Bill Moyers, The Progressive Movement
Tom Hayden, Port Huron Statement
Additional Readings
Chapter 4 Social Movements That Promoted Corporate Social Responsibility
Michael Blanding, Coke: The New Nike
Adam D. Sacks, Rights Fight: Townships in Rural Pennsylvania Take on Factory Farms-and Corporate Rights
David Swanson, Flame-Broiled Shark [Acorn taking on the predatory lending practices of Household Finance]
Ricky Baldwin, Tomato Pickers Win Big at Taco Bell
Amy Joyce, Logging On With a New Campaign: Staffers Use Tactics Learned with Candidates to Pressure Wal-Mart
Additional Readings
Chapter 5 The Next Generation: Social Movements Promoting Social Justice in a Globalizing World
Brian Halwell, The Rise of Food Democracy
Kelly Hearn, Not a Drop to Drink [Bolivians protest successfully against the World Bank's privatization of their water supply]
Martin Khor, South Fights Back on Services at WTO [Leaders of relatively powerless nations take on the policies of the World Trade Organization]
Vandana Shiva, How to End Poverty: Making Poverty History and the History of Poverty [The ideology that inflames bottom up social movements in the globalizing world]
Additional Readings
Chapter 6 Involvement in Social Movements: The Importance of Citizen Activism
Sarah Ferguson, Cindy Sheehan and the Peace Movement
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Jose Bove and the Global Peasant Movement
Charles Bowden, Charlie Kenaghan, Keeper of the Fire [Student activism against sweatshop labor]
Additional Readings