| Contention and Social Responsibility Contributor(s): Soule, Sarah A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521898404 ISBN-13: 9780521898409 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2009 Annotation: This book examines anti-corporate activism in the United States, providing a nuanced understanding of the changing focal points of challenges to corporations. Click for more in this series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science - Business & Economics | Industries - General |
| Dewey: 338.6 |
| LCCN: 2009022131 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.00 lbs) 208 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents |
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| Publisher Description: This book examines anti-corporate activism in the United States, including analysis of anti-corporate challenges associated with social movements as diverse as the Civil Rights Movement and the Dolphin-Safe Tuna Movement. Using a unique dataset of protest events in the United States, the book shows that anti-corporate activism is primarily about corporate policies, products, and negligence. Although activists have always been distrustful of corporations and sought to change them, until the 1970s and 1980s, this was primarily accomplished via seeking government regulation of corporations or via organized labor. Sarah A. Soule traces the shift brought about by deregulation and the decline in organized labor, which prompted activists to target corporations directly, often in combination with targeting the state. Using the literatures on contentious and private politics, which are both essential for understanding anti-corporate activism, the book provides a nuanced understanding of the changing focal points of activism directed at corporations. |
Contributor Bio(s): Soule, Sarah A.: - Sarah A. Soule is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She received her BA from the University of Vermont in 1989, her MA from Cornell University in 1991, and her PhD from Cornell University in 1995. Before joining the faculty at Stanford, she was a faculty member at the University of Arizona and Cornell University. Her most recent articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems, and Mobilization. She has just completed another book (with David Snow) entitled A Primer on Social Movements and was a co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. |
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