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The live animal export industry: a case study of the role played by an Australian blue-collar union in the animal welfare and rights movement
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Live animal export has developed into a trade on an international scale and one that has attracted criticisms and protests to protect animal welfare and rights by groups and organisations over the last decade as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Live animal export has developed into a trade on an international scale and one that has attracted criticisms and protests to protect animal welfare and rights by groups and organisations over seve...read more
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Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits
TL;DR: Piecemeal protest as discussed by the authors examines the impact of nonprofitization on factionalism and a movement's ability to mobilize, resonate, and succeed in today's era of professionalized advocacy.
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How do trade unions manage themselves? A study of Australian unions’ administrative practices
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors discuss the internal management policies and practices of unions, including human resource management, budgeting and strategy formulation, and find that unions have increasingly professionalised their administration and adopted strategic planning and budgeting practices.
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Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
TL;DR: In this paper, a multifactored model of social movement formation is presented, emphasizing resources, organization, and political opportunities in addition to traditional discontent hypotheses, and the McCarthy-Zald theory of entrepreneurial mobilization is critically assessed as an interpretation of the social movements of the 1960s-1970s.
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A Theory of Fields
Neil Fligstein,Doug McAdam +1 more
TL;DR: A theory of strategic action fields is proposed in this paper, where the authors discuss the relationship between social skill and the state of the strategic action field and the emergence and transformation of fields.
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The Concept of Social Movement
TL;DR: Social movements are networks of informal interactions between a plurality of individuals, groups and/or organizations, engaged in political or cultural conflicts, on the basis of shared collective identities.
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Toward a General Theory of Strategic Action Fields
Neil Fligstein,Doug McAdam +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a brief sketch of a general theory of strategic action fields (SAFs) is given, with a discussion of the main elements of the theory, describe the broader environment in which any SAF is embedded, consider the dynamics of stability and change in SAFs, and end with a respectful critique of other contemporary perspectives on social structure and agency.