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Direct Action in British Environmentalism is the fulllest scholarly analysis available of this phenomenon. It is essential reading for students of politics and environmental studies.
Environmentalism --- Direct action --- Government, Resistance to --- Environmental movement --- Social movements --- Anti-environmentalism --- Sustainable living --- Greenwashing
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"The sit-ins of the American civil rights movement were extraordinary acts of dissent in an age marked by protest. By sitting in at "whites only" lunch counters, libraries, swimming pools, and churches, young African Americans and their allies put their lives on the line, fully aware that their actions would almost inevitably incite hateful, violent responses from entrenched and increasingly desperate white segregationists. The simplicity of the act, coupled with the dignity and grace exhibited by participants, lent to the sit-in movement's sanctity and peaceful power. These cohesive essays from leading scholars offer a new appraisal of the origins, growth, and legacy of the sit-ins, largely ignored in scholarly literature. By focusing on the persuasive power of demanding space, the contributors articulate the ways in which the protestors' battle for basic civil rights shaped social practices, laws, and the national dialogue"--
African Americans --- Civil rights demonstrations --- Civil rights movements --- Direct action --- Civil rights --- History
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1871-1890 : les syndicats ne structurent pas encore la revendication des salariés. Flamboyante, surprenante, dramatique aussi, la grève est l’expression fondamentale d’une classe ouvrière qui passe à cette époque du monde de l’atelier à celui de l’usine. En mobilisant et en exploitant des sources multiples, on s’est efforcé de reconstituer l’histoire des grèves dans la France de la IIIe République, et sans négliger aucune dimension du phénomène. L’évolution et le rythme des grèves, leur développement et leur fluctuation, l’ensemble des composantes d’une grève (les types de revendications, la sociologie de l’engagement ouvrier) font la matière du premier livre. Le « cours d’une grève » - comment elle commence, comment elle dure, comment elle se finit - occupe le second, avec une attention particulière à la diversité des formes d’action, au rôle respectif des organisations et des hommes - qui sont les « meneurs » ? - et à la vie collective des grévistes, à leurs gestes, à leur parole. Cet ouvrage tente d’allier la rigueur d’une approche quantitative d’un fait social aux suggestions d’une littéraire foisonnante, et d’aider ainsi à la connaissance d’un monde ouvrier extrêmement mouvant, en quête de lui-même. De la Commune aux premières ébauches de grève générale, le parcours pionnier qu’il nous propose est devenu une pièce maîtresse pour la constitution d’une sociologie historique des conflits du travail.
Strikes and lockouts --- History --- Combinations of labor --- Lockouts --- Work stoppages --- Direct action --- Labor disputes --- Strikebreakers --- ouvriers --- grève --- Troisième République --- Commune
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Nonviolence. --- Passive resistance. --- Gandhi, Mahatma, --- Non-violence --- Government, Resistance to --- Pacifism --- Nonviolent noncooperation --- Resistance, Passive --- Satyagraha --- Direct action --- Nonviolence
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In Pennsylvania Mining Families, Barry P. Michrina offers a luminous portrait of Pennsylvania coal miners and their response to economic oppression. He follows them from the great coal strike of 1927 through daily threats of injury and death in the mines to the departure of children and grandchildren as the industry has declined. Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews, as well as extensive archival research, he analyzes the change in work practices, the miners' own views about their ever-evolving situation, and relationships between miners and mining companies -- undercutting the stereotyp
Coal miners --- Strikes and lockouts --- Combinations of labor --- Lockouts --- Work stoppages --- History. --- Coal mining --- Direct action --- Labor disputes --- Strikebreakers --- Miners --- Colliers (Coal miners)
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"In this ground-breaking and much-needed book, Stellan Vinthagen provides the first major systematic attempt to develop a theory of nonviolent action since Gene Sharp's seminal "The Politics of Nonviolent Action" in 1973. Employing a rich collection of historical and contemporary social movements as examples -- from the civil rights movement in America to anti-Apartheid protesters in South Africa to Gandhi and his followers in India -- and addressing core theoretical issues in an innovative, penetrating way, Vinthagen argues for a repertoire of nonviolence that combines resistance and construction." -- back cover.
Civil disobedience. --- Civil resistance --- Disobedience, Civil --- Government, Resistance to --- Nonviolence. --- Passive resistance. --- Sociology --- Nonviolent noncooperation --- Resistance, Passive --- Satyagraha --- Direct action --- Nonviolence --- Non-violence --- Pacifism
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John Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled "The Four Winds". For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn. It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of "The Island Pharisees" in 1904 that he published as John Galsworthy. His first play was The Silver Box, an immediate success when it debuted in 1906 and was followed by "The Man of Property" later that same year and was the first in the Forsyte trilogy. Whilst today he is far more well know as a Nobel Prize winning novelist then he was considered a playwright dealing with social issues and the class system. We publish here 'Strife' a great example of both his writing and his demonstration of how the class system worked at the time. He was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1929, after earlier turning down a knighthood, and awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 though he was too ill to attend. John Galsworthy died from a brain tumour at his London home, Grove Lodge, Hampstead on January 31st 1933. In accordance with his will he was cremated at Woking with his ashes then being scattered over the South Downs from an aeroplane.
Strikes and lockouts. --- Tinplate industry. --- Labor movement. --- Labor and laboring classes --- Social movements --- Tin industry --- Combinations of labor --- Lockouts --- Work stoppages --- Direct action --- Labor disputes --- Strikebreakers
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From her perspective as both participant and observer, Barbara Epstein examines the nonviolent direct action movement which, inspired by the civil rights movement, flourished in the United States from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. Disenchanted with the politics of both the mainstream and the organized left, and deeply committed to forging communities based on shared values, activists in this movement developed a fresh, philosophy and style of politics that shaped the thinking of a new generation of activists. Driven by a vision of an ecologically balanced, nonviolent, egalitarian society, they engaged in political action through affinity groups, made decisions by consensus, and practiced mass civil disobedience.The nonviolent direct action movement galvanized originally in opposition to nuclear power, with the Clamshell Alliance in New England and then the Abalone Alliance in California leading the way. Its influence soon spread to other activist movements—for peace, non-intervention, ecological preservation, feminism, and gay and lesbian rights.Epstein joined the San Francisco Bay Area's Livermore Action Group to protest the arms race and found herself in jail along with a thousand other activists for blocking the road in front of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. She argues that to gain a real understanding of the direct action movement it is necessary to view it from the inside. For with its aim to base society as a whole on principles of egalitarianism and nonviolence, the movement sought to turn political protest into cultural revolution.
Radicalism --- Social movements --- Direct action --- Nonviolence --- Non-violence --- Government, Resistance to --- Pacifism --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Political science --- Case studies.
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Cet ouvrage est le contraire d'un dictionnaire. Il ne parle pas de « langue » ; il ne prétend pas régenter les significations, par delà les emplois concrets du vocabulaire, pour édifier un répertoire de normes généralisables. Bien au contraire, c'est aux situations qu'il s'arrête, dans le fouillis de l'histoire, afin de saisir les différences d'utilisation davantage que les consensus, ces instants de fracture qui justement font avancer la langue. D'où l'aspect hétérogène d'un recueil d'articles et de chroniques d'origines diverses. Pour tous ces textes disparates, l'objectif est cependant le même : saisir la forme ou le fond d'un terme au moment d'une « entrée en politique », en entendant par « forme » sa manière d'être dans l'énoncé, ses liens aux autres mots, le rythme de ses fréquences, sa spécificité d'emploi, et par « fond » les stratégies qui se servent de lui au cours d'échanges entre locuteurs ou de situations d'affrontement dont la parole est témoin et actrice. Lors de ces échanges, se dissimulent - ou se révèlent - les enjeux profonds voire les idéologies d'arrière-plan qui habitent les mots et les liaisons entre mots. Ces études de cas, plus ou moins élaborées selon les supports, convergent vers une conception de l'émergence du sens que nous appelons « étymologie sociale ». This work is the opposite of a dictionary. It does not deal with “language”; it does not claim authority over meanings, beyond the concrete use of vocabulary items, to compile a directory of generalisible criteria. On the contrary, it focuses on situations, drawn from the chaos of history, to identify differences in usage rather than consensus, those moments of rupture which move language forward. Hence the disparate nature of a collection of articles and chronicles from various sources. For all these disparate texts, however, the aim is the same: to identify the form and content of a term at the moment when it “entered politics”, taking “form” to be its distinctive character in the…
French language --- Strikes and lockouts --- Combinations of labor --- Lockouts --- Work stoppages --- Direct action --- Labor disputes --- Strikebreakers --- discours --- idéologie --- langage politique --- sociolinguistique
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