Until the 1970s, the study of social movements was firmly within a diverse sociological
tradition that explored the relationship between social structure and political behavior, and …

Although social movements are often presumed to cause change, the dominant theoretical
accounts lead to the opposite conclusion. To explain how challenging movements do …

The concept of craft has long lived in the margins of organizational research and has
typically been equated with a primitive form of manufacturing. Craft, however, seems to have …

Over most of history, participants in trust networks such as clandestine religious sects and
kinship groups have shielded them from rulers' intervention, rightly fearing dispossession or …

The wave of sit-ins that swept through the American South in the spring of 1960 transformed
the struggle for racial equality. This episode is widely cited in the literature on social …

The proliferation of research on the US labor movement has created opportunities for the
development of theory on labor action. Such theory would account for variations in the …

Numerous histories of the early days of individual academic fields have been written, but
scholars generally have stopped short of proposing generalizable frameworks or testable …

After years of neglect, scholars have now turned their attention to the consequences of
social movements (compare the reviews of McAdam et al. 1988 with Giugni 1998; see also …

Page 1 ? THE LABORING OF COMMUNICATION Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite?
Vincent MOSCO MCKERCHER Catherine Page 2 Page 3 The Laboring of Communication This …

This paper takes a “social movements” approach to employee activism regarding diversity
and inequality in the workplace. The social context is often neglected in studies of …