This project explores whether and how corporations become more receptive to social activist challenges over time. Drawing from social movement theory, we suggest a dynamic process through which contentious interactions lead to increased receptivity. We argue that when firms are chronically...

Preface: The continuing relevance of progressive student activism in an age of right-wing populism -- Theorizing social movement strategy -- Globalization, the apparel industry and the roots of sweatshops -- Higher education as a political opportunity structure -- The origins of United Students...

A major goal of the environmental movement is to conserve or improve the natural environment, but evidence showing that environmental mobilization produces positive environmental outcomes is mixed. This paper addresses a fundamental question about the relative impact of pro-environmental...

Analyzing the 2010 elections -- Summary history of the Wisconsin uprising -- The source of collective effervescence: conceptual foundations -- Totally alive: effervescence in the Wisconsin uprising -- Internal order and youth authority in the Wisconsin uprising -- The information station --...

"Communists and Community chronicles labor activism and community organizing sponsored by the Communist Party in Detroit from 1942 to 1956, to investigate the changing nature of community-based activism in the twentieth century."

Introduction : publicizing the private sector -- A consumer revolution? : marketplace activism since the founding -- We are the 99% : contemporary consumer activism -- We are not a mascot : campaigns for social/economic justice -- 600,000 bosses telling me what to do : campaigns for the...