Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action

After over a decade of the austerity measures that followed the 2008 financial crisis entailing severe, unpopular policies that have galvanized opposition and frayed social ties what lies next for European societies?

The book examines the integration of European trade union movement and explores the prospects for European or transnational solidarity among workers.

This book offers a comparative, theory-grounded study of Maghrebi political parties since the Arab uprisings, specifically focused on Tunisia and Morocco in the first decade after the 2011 watershed elections.

Alongside the Arab Spring, the 'Occupy' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011-12.

Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their politics, pacifist beliefs, and compulsory military service.

This book, first published in 1949, analyses the thread of Christian anti-authority thought that runs through protests and revolts from the first days of Christianity to modern times.

Thirty years ago, a social movement helped bring down one of the most powerful British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century.

With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions?

The 1989 pro-democracy movement in China constituted a huge challenge to the survival of the Chinese communist state, and the efforts of the Chinese Communist party to erase the memory of the massacre testify to its importance.

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Jacoby provides a comprehensive social history of the abortion abolition campaign from its beginnings following Roe v.

In the past 18 years, after the handover of the former British colony Hong Kong to China, Beijing and the Special Administration Region (SAR) have been trying to work out a mutually beneficial relationship based on pragmatism and a focus on economic prosperity.

This book, first published in 1982, examines the reality of the so-called revolution in Afghanistan.

This book examines the upsurge in mass popular protest against undemocratic regimes.

The volume sheds light on the backsliding process of Turkish democratization from the early 2010's until 2018.

Communal Riots have been a complete problem for our politicians, thinkers, scholars and administrators alike.

Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context.

This volume purports to explore the legal and political issues triggered by the new wave of secessionism.

In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously.

During the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of people across Western Europe protested against civil nuclear energy.

Across Western Europe, the global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath not only brought economic havoc but also, in turn, intense political upheaval.

This book, first published in 1983, is a radical reinterpretation of the Hungarian revolution in the context of world politics and Eastern Europe as a whole.

This ground-breaking textbook describes and explains the global manifestations of populism.

This book examines ACT UP/LA and their activities protesting against government neglect of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.

Daniel Berriganspowerful, poetic commentary on the biblical book of Daniel brings to life a prophet who has as much to say to our hedonistic, warring world as he did to the people of Old Testament times.

Why is social protest a normal, almost routine form of political participation in certain Latin American democracies, but not others?

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Taking a comparative case study approach between Canada and Germany, this book investigates the contrasting response of governments to anti-wind movements.

Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine is a book about strategies of trade unions confronting employers in difficult conditions.

Using a global array of case studies, this collection explores the consequences of political involvement on an individual''s life.

Dressing the Resistance is a celebration of how we use clothing, fashion, and costume to ignite activism and spur social change.

After a landslide electoral victory in 2006, Evo Morales became the first indigenous President of Bolivia.

The Indigenous movement in Ecuador was one of the most influential social movements in Latin America during the 1990s.

This book combines radical history, critical geography, and political theory in an innovative history of the solidarity campaign in London during the 1984-5 miners' strike.

How successful are social movements and left parties at achieving social and political change?

The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011.

Moving from a social movement perspective, this timely volume examines narratives on Euroscepticism and frames on Europe from below, at the party and social movement levels.

Revolutionizing Motherhood examines one of the most astonishing human rights movements of recent years.

Thailand's politics has been contentious in recent years.

In a time of rising inequality and plutocratic government, citizens' movements are emerging with growing frequency to offer populist challenges to the declining living standards of masses of Americans, and to protest the conditions through which individuals suffer in poor communities across the country.

The first decade of the twentieth century was the Ottoman Empire's 'imperial twilight'.

Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine is a book about strategies of trade unions confronting employers in difficult conditions.

This book, first published in 1973, examines seven revolutionary armies ranging from Cromwell's New Model Army to the Red Army of Mao Zedong.

There is a consensus that right, and left-wing populism is on the rise on both sides of the Atlantic, from Donald Trump in the United States, to Spain's leftist Podemos.

Leveller Manifestoes (1944) is a collection of primary manifestoes issued by the Levellers, the group which played an active and influential role in the English revolution of 1642-49.

In October 2014, huge protests across Burkina Faso succeeded in overthrowing the long-entrenched regime of their authoritarian ruler, Blaise Compaor .

Communal Riots have been a complete problem for our politicians, thinkers, scholars and administrators alike.

As Bolivia reels from the collapse of the government in November 2019, a wave of social protests, and now the impact of Covid-19, this book asks: where next for Bolivia?

Abortion and Reproductive Rights in Slovenia: A Case of Resistance provides a detailed and in-depth analysis of the situation of sexual and reproductive rights in Slovenia.