Strategic Alliances Coalition Building and Social Movements [Paperback]

Social researchers in the past have paid surprisingly little theoretical or empirical attention to movement alliances.Strategic Alliancesprovides a pioneering set of in-depth analyses of the circumstances leading to these organizational alliances. Contributors investigate coalition dynamics among social movements, including antiwar, environmental, and labor movements, as well as ethnic organizations and women's groups. While many of the essays examine coalition formation in the United States, others consider coalitions in Britain, the former East Germany, East Asia, and Latin America.

Contributors: Paul Almeida, Texas A&M U; Elizabeth Borland, College of New Jersey; Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt U; Catherine Corrigall-Brown, U of British Columbia; Mario Diani, U of Trento; Katja M. Guenther, UC Riverside; Larry Isaac, Vanderbilt U; Isobel Lindsay, Biggar, Scotland; David S. Meyer, UC Irvine; Brian Obach, SUNY New Paltz; Dina G. Okamoto, UC Davis; Christine Petit, UC Riverside; Derrick Purdue, U of the West of England; Ellen Reese, UC Riverside; Benita Roth, SUNY Binghamton; Suzanne Staggenborg, U of Pittsburgh; Dawn Wiest, U of Memphis.

The best current thinking on the conditions leading to successful activist coalitions.

Nella Van Dyke is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced.
Holly J. McCammon is professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University.

Contents
Preface
Introduction: Social Movement Coalition Formation
Nella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammon
Part I. Social Ties and the Development of Movement Coalitions
1. The Prehistory of a Coalition: The Role of Social Ties in Win Without War
Catherine Corrigall-Brown and David S. Meyer
2. Policing Capital: Armed Countermovement Coalitions against Labor in Late Nineteenth-Century Industrial Cities
Larry Isaac
3. Interstate Dynamics and Transnational Social Movement Coalitions: A Comparison of Northeastl%