| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 192 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in contentious politics
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Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
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| Contents |
Understanding social movements, contentions and private politics and their consequences -- Anti-corporate protest in the United States, 1960-1990 -- The effect of protest on university divestment -- Private and contentious politics in the post-1990 era. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Corporations -- United States.
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Corporations. |
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United States. |
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Social responsibility of business -- United States.
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Social responsibility of business. |
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Anti-globalization movement -- United States.
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Anti-globalization movement. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1960-2009 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Soule, Sarah Anne, 1967- Contention and corporate social responsibility. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521898409 (DLC) 2009022131 (OCoLC)317918780 |
| ISBN |
9780511641381 (electronic book) |
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0511641389 (electronic book) |
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0511638949 (electronic book) |
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9780511638947 (electronic book) |
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9780511804359 |
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0511804350 |
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9780521898409 (hardback) |
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0521898404 (hardback) |
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9780521727068 (paperback) |
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0521727065 (paperback) |
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