The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts

The Social Movements Reader is an extensive collection of the key classic and contemporary readings on the origins, organization, dynamics, and effects of social movements.

• Contains 33 concise essays by leading scholars on the origins, organizations, influences, and development of social movements.
  
• Collects both classic and contemporary readings on social movements.
  
• Provides several case studies including articles on labor, civil rights, women, the environment, religion, and politics.
  
• Includes editorial introductions, chronologies, and definitions of key terms to give further insight and direction.

Jeff Goodwin is Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements (2001) and co-editor (with James M. Jasper and Francesca Polletta) of Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements (2001).

James M. Jasper is the author of The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements (1997) and Restless Nation: Starting over in America (2000) and co-author (with Dorothy Nelkin of The Animal Rights Crusade (1992).