Pressure Groups & Lobbying

In recent years there has been growing recognition of the role played in American politics by groups such as Common Cause, the Sierra Club, and Zer...

This is a collection of essays by an array of contributors from the Global Labour Column, which highlights and examines class struggle as the core ...

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising from the ashes of the old trade union movement, workers' s...

This is the untold story of the truly groundbreaking linguistic and educational developments that took place among Republican prisoners in Long Kes...

This is the untold story of the truly groundbreaking linguistic and educational developments that took place among Republican prisoners in Long Kes...

*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2013* From the pens of major figures of the anti-austerity movement, comes the first radical, collect...

This book analyses dissent and its manifestations in movements of social and political transformation across communities and cultures. It shows how...

Populism is on the rise in Europe and the Americas. Scholars increasingly understand populist forces in terms of their ideas or discourse, one that...

Never Silent is a gorgeous book . . . Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone whos thinking/worrying/wondering about how to chan...

How insurgenciesenabled by digital devices and a vast information spherehave mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. In the words ...

For years, Pat Libby has been teaching everyday citizens how to pass laws. Most of them knew next to nothing about the legislative process when the...

Uncover the inspiring stories of bravery and activism in the face of war with this powerful collection of essays and poems. Written by the front-li...

Starting in the 1970s, conservatives learned that electoral victory did not easily convert into a reversal of important liberal accomplishments, es...

This book celebrates and seeks to understand the overlooked appearances of hybrid forms in visual culture; artefacts and practices that meld or int...

In Social Movements: A Theoretical Approach, Dieter Rucht offers a theoretically and historically informed approach to social movements as a phenom...

Q. Whats worth £2,000,000,000, answers to no-one and operates out of public sight? A. Britains influence industry The corporate ...

Echoing James Forman Jr.s Locking Up Our Own, a riveting story of race, civil rights, and rebellion in Washington, DCIn April 1968, following the m...

The Young Lords, who originated as a Chicago street gang fighting gentrification and unfair evictions in Puerto Rican neighborhoods, burgeoned into...

The Fourth Ordeal tells the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the late 1960s until 2018. Based on over 140 first-hand interviews with...

The Fourth Ordeal tells the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the late 1960s until 2018. Based on over 140 first-hand interviews with...

Most observers of Iran viewed the Green Uprisings of 2009 as a 'failed revolution', with many Iranians and those in neighbouring Arab countries agr...

Non-elected actors, such as non-governmental organizations and celebrity activists, present themselves as representatives of others to audiences of...

Presenting a new framework for the study of revolutions, this innovative exploration of French, Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cuban, Iranian, South...

While trauma and loss can occur anywhere, most suffering is experienced as personal tragedy. Yet some tragedies transcend everyday life's sad but i...

While trauma and loss can occur anywhere, most suffering is experienced as personal tragedy. Yet some tragedies transcend everyday life's sad but i...

*Winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize 2022* In Ireland, 2018, a constitutional ban that equated the life of a woman to the life of a fertili...

The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality collects voices from various Black intel...

An essential guide to how the power of art has been harnessed to effect political change across the modern world, from the struggle for universal s...

This collection posits three questions. 1) What structures of violence and oppression are experienced and shared by human and nonhuman laborers wor...

Disability rights advocates in the United Kingdom and the United States recently embraced new media technologies in unexpected and innovative ways....

Grassroots Advocacy and Health Care Reform places a detailed account of how the Health Care for America Now campaign in Pennsylvania carried out co...

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera per...

This book provides a nuanced picture of how governmental advocates develop their lobbying strategies. Through in-depth analysis of context specific...

What if there was a story that had never been told, a story that spanned almost five decades, a story that involved the great conflict between the ...