Home  /  Back to disciplines  /  Request exam/desk copy  /  Purchase  /  View cart  /  Checkout

Grassroots Resistance

Social Movements in Twentieth Century America

Robert A. Goldberg

One of the finest pieces of social historical analysis on movement politics! Grassroots Resistance offers readers a synthesis for the study of social movements and social change in twentieth-century America. Ordinary men and women occupy the foreground as movers of events rather than observers of history as Goldberg analyzes eight significant movements including the Industrial Workers of the World, the Ku Klux Klan, the Communist Party, and the John Birch Society. The book blends the focus of a historical perspective with the insights of sociological theory to give students both the necessary dimensions of time and human involvement and a theoretical lens through which to look at pieces of the past.
 

$21.50 list, 313 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-896-6

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-896-6

© 1991

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to Social Movements

2. The Death of John Barleycorn: The Anti-Saloon League

3. One Big Union: The Industrial Workers of the World

4. Invisible Empire: The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

5. Thrown Off Your Chains: The Communist Party

6. Bridging McCarthyism and Reaganism: The John Birch Society

7. “We Shall Not Be Moved”: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

8. The Campus Revolt: The Berkeley Free Speech Movement

9. Never Another Season of Silence: The National Organization for Women

10. The Challengers’ Legacy