Book Review: Strategizing Against Sweatshops: The Global Economy, Student Activism, and Worker Empowerment by Williams, Matthew
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DOI: 10.1177/0160449x221090139
Abstract: Strategizing Against Sweatshops: The Global Economy, Student Activism, and Worker Empowerment is an analytic examination of the strategic evolution of the U.S. antisweatshop movement, United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS). A sociologist at Loyola University Chicago,… read more here.
Keywords: student; economy; student activism; worker empowerment ... See more keywords
Campus sexual assault and student activism, 1970–1990
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DOI: 10.1177/1473325019828805
Abstract: This historical analysis research project traces the early history of the anti-rape movement within the US by examining one university’s development of a sexual violence resource center and the role of student activism. The time… read more here.
Keywords: campus sexual; sexual violence; activism; student activism ... See more keywords
Intersectional sustainability and student activism: A framework for achieving social sustainability on university campuses
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DOI: 10.1177/1746197919886860
Abstract: In recent decades, universities have made significant progress toward environmental sustainability and have likewise tightened their budgets and restructured economic models in the name of financial sustainability. However, institutions of higher education have failed to… read more here.
Keywords: intersectional sustainability; sustainability student; student activism; university ... See more keywords
Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962-1972 by Sarah Eppler Janda (review)
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DOI: 10.1353/soh.2019.0065
Abstract: If the 1960s youth revolt really shook the entire nation, then its effects should have been felt far from such hotbeds of student radicalism asBerkeley, California. Thus studies of campuses below the Mason-Dixon Line are… read more here.
Keywords: student activism; student; state; university ... See more keywords
Student activism in a time of crisis in South Africa: The quest for ‘black power’
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DOI: 10.15700/saje.v38n4a1704
Abstract: Higher Education in South Africa has been in crisis over recent years. University systems in many parts of South Africa have witnessed student protest, as well as ongoing violence, resulting in many campuses turning into… read more here.
Keywords: student; south africa; student activism; education ... See more keywords