Solutions to Social Problems from the Bottom Up: Successful Social Movements by D. Eitzen
This brief reader examines a number of organized movements that have successfully brought about reform and change from the bottom up.
Solutions to Social Problems from the Bottom Up
Solutions to Social Problems from the Bottom Up
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Table of Contents
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
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CIN0205468845G
9780205468843
0205468845
Solutions to Social Problems from the Bottom Up: Successful Social Movements by D. Eitzen
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
20070116
160
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