1st Edition

Power, Profit and Protest Australian social movements and globalisation

By Verity Burgmann Copyright 2003
400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

'a provocative must-read text for an engaged public, offering a distinctive Australian take on corporate globalism, and grounding this in a robust theory of social change that emphasises material power and interests, along with symbolic power and ideology' James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney Social movements transformed Western societies in the 1960s and 1970s: feminism, black rights,... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgments

1. Social movements and social change

2. The Aboriginal movement

3. The women's movement

4. The green movement

5. Anti-capitalism and anti-corporate globalisation

6. Globalisation: the cancer stage of capitalism?

Notes

References

Index

Biography

Associate Professor Verity Burgmann is Reader in Political Science at the University of Melbourne.