Solutions to Social Problems from the Bottom Up Successful Social Movements

by Eitzen, D. Stanley; Stewart, Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9780205468843
• ISBN10: 0205468845
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-13
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This brief reader examines a number of organized movements that have successfully brought about reform and change "from the bottom up."

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Social Movements and Democracy	1	(24)
How Social Movements Matter	9	(7)
David S. Meyer
The Problem Is Civil Obedience	16	(9)
Howard Zinn
Additional Readings	23	(2)
Social Movements Advancing toward Equality	25	(32)
The Sit-In Movement	27	(5)
Taylor Branch
Rosa Parks's Gift to the Disabled	32	(4)
Charles Wilson
Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848--1998	36	(12)
Bonnie Eisenberg
Mary Ruthsdotter
Gay Rights, Wikipedia	48	(4)
The Living Wage Movement, Living Wage Resource Center	52	(5)
Additional Readings	55	(2)
Social Movements Promoting Democracy	57	(28)
Dorr Rebellion, Wikipedia	59	(2)
How Women Won the Vote	61	(6)
Akhil Reed Amar
Mississippi and Freedom Summer	67	(6)
Liza Cozzens
The Progressive Movement	73	(5)
Bill Moyers
Port Huron Statement	78	(7)
Tom Hayden
Additional Readings	84	(1)
Social Movements Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility	85	(26)
Coke: The New Nike	88	(3)
Michael Blanding
Rights Fight: Townships in Rural Pennsylvania Take on Factory Farms---and Corporate Rights	91	(6)
Adam D. Sacks
Flame-Broiled Shark: ACORN's Fight to Stop Predatory Lending	97	(4)
David Swanson
Tomato Pickers Win Big at Taco Bell	101	(4)
Ricky Baldwin
Pressuring Wal-Mart through the Use of New Political Campaign Techniques	105	(6)
Amy Joyce
Additional Readings	109	(2)
The Next Generation: Social Movements Promoting Social Justice in a Globalizing World	111	(18)
The Rise of Food Democracy	113	(4)
Brian Halwell
Not a Drop to Drink: Bolivians Protest Policies of the World Bank	117	(3)
Kelly Hearn
Relatively Weak Nations Fight the Policies of the World Trade Organization	120	(3)
Martin Khor
How to End Poverty: Making Poverty History and the History of Poverty	123	(6)
Vandana Shiva
Additional Readings	127	(2)
Involvement in Social Movements: The Importance of Citizen Activism	129
Cindy Sheehan and the Peace Movement	131	(3)
Sarah Ferguson
Jose Bove and the Global Peasant Movement, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization	134	(7)
Charlie Kernaghan, Keeper of the Fire: Student Activism against Sweatshop Labor	141	(6)
Charles Bowden
The Impossible May Take a Little While	147	(7)
Paul Rogat Loch
Additional Readings	154