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Social Change
Movements, Politics, and Technology



October 2024 | 352 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Social Change: Movements, Politics, and Technology is a groundbreaking exploration of social transformation from a conflict theory perspective, offering a deep dive into the historical and sociological analysis of leaders within contemporary social movements. This text-reader is an essential guide for those seeking to understand the dynamics of social change and the role of social actors in shaping the future.
 
Chapter One: Primitive Accumulation: Enclosures, Colonial Conquest, and Enslavement
The Barbarism of Modern Western Civilization

 
Violent Evictions by the Rising Bourgeoisie in Europe

 
Witch Hunts Control Women’s Bodies and Knowledge

 
Incomplete Conquest and Genocide on Hispaniola

 
The Dispossessed Who Defied Control

 
Primitive Accumulation is the Template for Settler Colonialism

 
 
Chapter Two: Indigenous resistance on Turtle Island: Histories of resilience and self-defense
The True Origins of Thanksgiving

 
What You Think You Know About ‘Indians’ Is Probably Wrong

 
Ongoing Attempts to Control Turtle Island

 
Indigenous Resistance and Self-Defense After U.S. Independence

 
Surviving the Wars on Native Americans

 
 
Chapter Three: Slavery and Anti-Slavery
The Haitian Revolution and the Movement to End Slavery

 
‘King Cotton’ and the Planter Class

 
The Secret Marriage of the Slave Economy to Wall Street

 
Stages of the Movement to End Slavery in the United States

 
Four Lessons From the Movement to End Slavery

 
 
Chapter Four: Industrialization and the Rise of Unions
Bread and Water Wages and Clandestine Organizing Before Unions

 
The Rise of Monopoly Capitalism

 
Railroad Imperialism

 
The Royal Thieves of U.S. Empire

 
Workers’ Conditions and Industrial Struggles

 
Lessons From These Episodes of Industrial Struggles

 
 
Chapter Five: Boom and Bust and the New Deal
The Bonus Army’s Encampment and Eviction

 
Fordism

 
The Rise of Finance Capitalists

 
A Crisis of Overproduction Leads to a Crash

 
The Unequal Impacts of the Great Depression

 
The Poor Demand Rights to Basic Needs

 
The New Deal Strengthens Finance Capital

 
The Significance of the New Deal

 
 
Chapter Six: Imperialism, Cold War and National Liberation Struggles
First World Monopoly Capitalist Imperialism

 
The Cold War

 
Bretton Woods, the Marshall Plan and the Development Project

 
Communist Expansionism and Second World Strategies

 
Third World Strategies: National Liberation Movements

 
Possibilities for Third World Anti-Imperial Internationalism

 
Cold War Polarization and Contradictions

 
 
Chapter Seven: Empire and Cold War
‘You Are the Un-Americans’

 
Profits and Unequal Distribution in World War II and Beyond

 
The Red Scare and the Institutions of McCarthyism

 
Industrialization and Change in the South

 
Terror and Dissent Under Empire

 
Seeds of the Sixties

 
 
Chapter Eight: The Black-led freedom struggle
What We’re Not Taught About Rosa Parks

 
The Great Migration, Jim Crow and Owning-Class Conflicts

 
The Black-Led Freedom Movement

 
Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides

 
The Grassroots Organizing Tradition in Mississippi

 
Marching on Washington and Organizing Back Home

 
The Watts Uprising and the End of an Economic Era

 
From Civil Rights to Human Rights

 
 
Chapter Nine: 'An old world is dying': Struggles of the Long 1960s
Black Panthers Assassinated by the State

 
Persistent Inequalities in a Changing National Landscape

 
Theories of Organizing in the Long 1960s

 
Peace, Love, Democracy and Ecology

 
Liberation Struggles of Women, Gays, Lesbians and People With Disabilities

 
Black, Brown and Indigenous Liberation

 
The Poor People’s Campaign

 
Elite and State Responses to Struggles for Rights

 
 
Chapter Ten: Global Production and Survival Struggles under Neoliberalism
Xenophobia in Times of Globalization

 
From National to Global Production

 
Deindustrialization and Neoliberalism in the United States

 
Challenges to Globalization and Neoliberalism by the Dispossessed

 
Lessons From Organizing by the Dispossessed Under Neoliberal Globalization

 
 
Chapter Eleven: The digital revolution and emerging survival struggles
Limits of Just-in-Time Production and Global Supply Chains

 
Protracted Wars and the Rise of Digital Capital

 
Structural Racism, Poverty, and Emerging Survival Struggles

 
The ‘Middle Class’ is Not a Class

 
Fusion Politics in the Fight to Transform Society

 
Making Our Way in a Hot World Without Jobs

 

It is written in a clear, lucid style and grabs my attention immediately. Telling the truth about founding fathers and slavery from an Indigenous perspective, giving their rightful place to Black people as agents of history... well, it's about time!

Rose, Kate
Northern Arizona University
Draft Chapter Review

This text goes more in depth about the struggles of black people and provides more examples of institutional racism. This text also covers topics like the second Digital revolution and red baiting which my current textbook does not cover.

Omoregie, Jessica
University of Mississippi
Draft Chapter Review

I love how I don't need to situate a historical context for students when I read the text—it is very clear what was happening in the world at the time, so I can spend more time discussing the topics rather than setting the stage for my students.

Tesch, Brian
Mississippi State University
Draft Chapter Review

The strong critique of Western Civilization as a measure for progress/social change make the text as having a critical approach and that makes it really different from most texts I have used.

Ziwoya, Fletcher
University of Nebraska-Kearney
Draft Chapter Review

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