Holly J Mccammon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Holly J Mccammon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Holly J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccammon |
| SIGNATURE | MCCAMMON H J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1462-0860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 893 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 16 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Centering and Decentering Women: U.S. Supreme Court Discrimination Opinions and a Discursive Struggle over Women’s Status
We examined the Supreme Court's workplace and educational gender-discrimination cases from the 1970s to the present, assessing how they discuss women, their status, and workplace and educational experiences. Our study is situated in scholarship on status hierarchies, gendered cultural frameworks, and sociolegal understandings of the role of justice ideology and social movement influences on court decision making. We used a novel method for assess…
The Narrow Confines of Institutional Activism: The U.S. Supreme Court, Abortion, and Amicus Curiae Briefs
Abortion disputes routinely occur in the judicial realm. Before the Supreme Court, from Roe to Dobbs, both reproductive rights and antiabortion movement groups and their allies engaged in institutional activism, filing amicus curiae (or friend-of-the-court) briefs to influence case outcomes. The number of such briefs has increased substantially over time. Yet few movement researchers investigate this form of institutional activism. We examine ami…
Feminist Friends of the Court: Amicus Curiae, Social Movement Institutional Activism, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Women’s Rights Cases
To influence outcomes in U.S. women’s rights Supreme Court cases, feminist advocacy groups and their allies routinely file amicus curiae briefs, third-party briefs designed to persuade the justices in their decision-making. Yet no study has systematically examined the impact of these feminist-supporting amici on judicial decision-making. We argue that advocacy groups’ amicus mobilization can be understood as institutional activism, activism utili…
Fighting Words: Pro-Choice Cause Lawyering, Legal-Framing Innovations, and Hostile Political-Legal Contexts
Drawing on social-movement and sociolegal theorizing, we investigate legal-framing innovations in the briefs of reproductive-rights cause lawyers in prominent US Supreme Court abortion cases. Our results show that pro-choice activist attorneys engage in innovative women’s-rights framing when the political-legal context is more resistant to abortion rights for women, that is, when the political-legal opportunity structure is generally closed to re…
Madam President? Gender and Politics on the Road to the White House
The Supreme Court as an Arena for Activism: Feminist Cause Lawyering’s Influence on Judicial Decision Making
Beginning in the 1960s, U.S. feminist movement litigators organized public-interest legal organizations to promote women’s rights through legal mobilization in the courts. We investigate all U.S. Supreme Court decisions involving gender equality from 1965 to 2016 to discern the impact of involvement of these feminist movement litigation groups as legal counsel. Our findings show that organized feminist cause lawyers increase the likelihood of dec…
The Logics of Gender Justice: State Action on Women's Rights around the World
Years of the Nineteenth Amendment
100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment looks back at the century since the amendment giving women in the United States the right to vote was ratified. The volume asks: how has women’s political engagement unfolded over the last one hundred years? The chapters consider women’s participation in electoral politics as well as their efforts in social movement activism. They reveal that, while women have made substantial strides in the political realm—f…
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
In this chapter, we review the literature on social-movements and political parties interactions. We propose a research agenda that conceptualizes and empirically studies how movement-party interactions vary quantitatively and qualitatively under conditions of functioning representative linkages and crisis of representation.
American Mothers of Nonviolence: An Appraisal of Women's Political Activism
This chapter explores the historical relationship between and dynamics among feminists and nonviolent activists in the United States, surveying three waves of feminist nonviolent mobilization and interrogating the contributions to and erasure of feminist thinking from popular nonviolence histories. The US feminist and nonviolence movements were born of the same social heart among early, nonviolent abolitionists. It was from the experience of marg…
Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
Feminist Institutional Activists: Venue Shifting, Strategic Adaptation, and Winning the Pregnancy Discrimination Act
We examine efforts of feminist institutional activists in the 1960s and 1970s as they worked to gain U.S. federal policy to combat workplace pregnancy discrimination. The success of these activists in winning policy change provides a case that allows us to develop a theoretical understanding of how feminist institutional activists can succeed in winning policy change. We find that when institutional activists strategically shifted governmental ar…
Why We March: The Role of Grievances, Threats, and Movement Organizational Resources in the 2017 Women's Marches
We use Metropolitan Statistical Area-level data to investigate the emergence and size of the 2017 Women's Marches. Our findings indicate that the protests can be understood through both grievances and threats felt in the aftermath of Trump's election and movement organizational resources. While the impact of movement resources is as expected (more protest in MSAs with greater resources), the effect of grievances and threats is complex. Cautions c…
Legal Mobilization and Analogical Legal Framing: Feminist Litigators’ Use of Race–Gender Analogies
We investigate how cause lawyers articulate their demands in court. We do so by examining feminist legal briefs submitted in US Supreme Court cases from 1970 to the present, specifically focusing on the use of race–gender analogical legal framing. We explore the frequency and trends in the use of such arguments as well as the forms these arguments take, including how race–gender analogies parallel frame bridging and transformation. Additionally, …
The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism
Women have long been involved in social movement activism in the United States, from the nation’s beginning up to the present, and in waves of feminist activism as well as in a variety of other social movements, including the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and conservative mobilizations. The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women’s Social Movement Activism provides both a detailed and extensive examination of the wide range of U.S. wom…
Women in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement
This chapter explores the history of women’s participation in the LGBT movement, from the homophile phase in the 1950s–1960s through gay liberation, lesbian feminism, anti-AIDS activism in the 1980s–1990s, to contemporary queer activism and the marriage equality movement. The chapter points to shifts in women’s participation, ranging from fighting for women’s issues within male-dominated organizations to creating separatist groups to collaboratin…
American Women’s Environmental Activism
Women have played instrumental, often leading, roles in the twentieth-century environmental movement. The sparse literature on women’s activism in the early twentieth century indicates that both White and Black women in the racially segregated, middle-class women’s club movement pursued urban reforms. But White women additionally adopted conservationism, while Black women led the struggle for racial justice. The more robust literature focuses on …
Mobilizing the Faithful
In this chapter, we examine how conservative and right-wing organizations mobilize predominately White, religious women to action. We begin by outlining the importance of networks to mobilization efforts. Then, we discuss how conservative and right-wing women’s groups use religious doctrine as well as gendered assumptions regarding women’s and men’s roles in society to move women from their armchairs to the streets. The second half of the chapter…
The Swells between the “Waves”
American women’s history is often understood as unfolding in two movement “waves”: the movement for political equality (suffrage) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the movement for social and economic equality a half-century later. In the period between these two waves, women supposedly retreated from the public sphere. This chapter argues that the inter-wave era was actually a politically vibrant time for American women. …
Women in the White Supremacist Movement
A small but growing body of literature highlights the roles of women in White supremacist movements in the United States. This chapter reviews the diverse findings of this work by showing when, why, and how women participate in White supremacist movements. It begins by analyzing the interlocking ideologies of race and gender that shape women’s participation. Most White supremacist movements glorify stereotypical gender norms for both men and wome…
Women’s Activism in the Modern Movement for Black Liberation
This chapter examines women’s activism in the modern movement for Black liberation. It examines women’s roles across three phases of mobilization. Starting with an exploration of women’s participation in the direct action phase of the U.S. civil rights movement (1954–1966), the chapter discusses the key roles that women played in the fight for legal equality for African Americans. Next it examines women’s central role in the Black Power movement …
Push, Pull, and Fusion
Women’s activism has focused not only on state institutions, such as the military, electoral politics, and education, but also on religious institutions. At the same time, participation in organized religion has helped women develop organizational and leadership skills that they can then draw on for their activism, both in movements directed toward religious institutions and in other, non-religious movements. Further, religion provides cultural f…
Sexuality, Gender Identity, Fluidity, and Embodiment
Social movement activists have frequently used a variety of embodied tactics to negotiate cultural conceptions of gender and sexuality, which are in constant flux. This chapter attends to the ways that new social formations of gender and sexuality—including the recent emphases on gender and sexual fluidity—have impacted the politics, goals, tactics, and identities of contemporary women’s movements. Incorporating queer, transgender, critical race,…
Women’s Activism and Educational Institutions
Mobilized women have indelibly changed educational institutions, their activism creating equality in many spheres of higher education. This chapter draws on literature on women’s movements and movements within institutions to argue that women’s activists have successfully organized for educational accessibility and resources, the legal rights of women and girls in educational institutions, and the presence of women and incorporation of scholarshi…
Battles over Abortion and Reproductive Rights
This chapter examines the history of feminist struggles for abortion and reproductive rights in the United States. It analyzes why these issues continue to mobilize participants in opposing movements. Symbolic politics are an important reason for the longevity of the conflict, and issues of abortion and reproduction are connected to concerns about gender and sexuality. Movement/countermovement dynamics also help to keep the conflict alive; when o…
How Movements Win: Gendered Opportunity Structures and U.S. Women's Suffrage Movements, 1866 to 1919
State women's suffrage movements are investigated to illuminate the circumstances in which social movements bring about political change. In 29 states, suffragists were able to win significant voting rights prior to passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. In addition to resource mobilization, cultural framing, and political opportunity structures, the authors theorize that gendered opportunities also fostered the successes of the movements. An event…
Movement Framing and Discursive Opportunity Structures: The Political Successes of the U.S. Women's Jury Movements
Collective actors typically attempt to bring about a change in law or policy by employing discursive tactics designed to convince key political decision-makers to alter policy, yet few systematic studies of the effects of social movement framing on political outcomes exist. We theorize that the cultural context in which framing takes place moderates the success of movement framing in winning changes in policy. We examine the efforts of organized …
The Emergence, Development, and Future of the Framing Perspective: 25+ Years Since "Frame Alignment
It has been more than twenty-five years since publication of David Snow, Burke Rochford, Steven Worden, and Robert Benford's article, "Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation" in the American Sociological Review (1986). Here we consider the conceptual and empirical origins of the framing perspective, how its introduction fundamentally altered and continues to influence the study of social movements, and where scho…
Allies On the Road to Victory: Coalition Formation Between The Suffragists and The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Social movement organizations frequently enter into coalitions with other movement groups. Yet few movement scholars have investigated the circumstances that foster coalition work. This article analyzes both the contextual and organizational factors that spurred coalitions between women's suffrage organizations and Woman's Christian Temperance Unions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as they worked to win voting rights for wome…
Beyond Frame Resonance: The Argumentative Structure and Persuasive Capacity of Twentieth-Century U.S. Women's Jury-Rights Frames
Research on movement political success has grown measurably, yet few studies consider the role of framing in bringing about challenger victories. Existing investigations taking collective action framing into account typically consider only whether movement frames with broad cultural resonance are more convincing to policymakers. This study examines other qualities of movement frames to uncover argumentative forms that allow activists to persuade …
Workers and their Customers and Clients: An Editorial Introduction
Les etudes sur le secteur des services ont rarement ete etudiees de facon systematique. C'est pourquoi l'A. propose 3 postulats de departs pour remedier a cette lacune : 1) le controle des employeurs sur les ouvriers, 2) les experiences et les strategies des ouvriers travaillant dans le service, 3) l'experience et le pouvoir des clients dans une interaction de service
Explaining Frame Variation: More Moderate and Radical Demands for Women's Citizenship in the U.S. Women's Jury Movements
Journal Article Explaining Frame Variation: More Moderate and Radical Demands for Women's Citizenship in the U.S. Women's Jury Movements Get access Holly J. McCammon Holly J. McCammon Vanderbilt University Direct correspondence to: Holly McCammon, Department of Sociology, Box 351811, Vanderbilt University, Nashville 37235. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social …
Stirring Up Suffrage Sentiment: The Formation of the State Woman Suffrage Organizations, 1866-1914
In nearly every state around the turn of the twentieth century, suffragists mobilized in grassroots suffrage organizations to secure the vote for women. While movement researchers have theorized that political opportunities are important in explaining why movements emerge, the results from an examination of the emergence of the state suffrage movements show that the mobilization of various resources along with the way in which pro-suffrage argume…
Out of the Parlors and into the Streets: The Changing Tactical Repertoire of the U.S. Women' Suffrage Movements
Little empirical research exists on major changes in the strategies and tactics of social movements, but some researchers argue that organizational readiness and political opportunities produce such changes. This article examines the circumstances that led some state woman suffrage movements to use a bold new tactic, the suffrage parade, beginning in the early twentieth century. An event-history analysis reveals that organizational readiness and …
Explaining Suffrage Mobilization: Balance, Neutralization, and Range in Collective Action Frames, 1892–1919
Growing evidence points to the pivotal role of framing processes in the mobilization of social movements. Our study contributes to framing theory by drawing on data from state-level woman suffrage movements in the U.S. to provide a systematic comparison of the mobilizing capacities of different collective action frames. Specifically, we examine the differential impact of the justice, societal reform, and home protection frames. Rather than assumi…
Are You One of Those Women?” Within-Movement Conflict, Radical Flank Effects, and Social Movement Political Outcomes
Studies of social movement outcomes rarely consider the impact of conflict between groups within movements on the ability of movement actors to achieve their political goals. In this examination of the Texas women's movement from the late 1950s until the early 1970s, we consider the role of within-movement conflict as organized women worked to gain an Equal Legal Rights Amendment. Our analysis reveals that conflict within movements can benefit ac…
Why We March: The Role of Grievances, Threats, and Movement Organizational Resources in the 2017 Women's Marches
We use Metropolitan Statistical Area-level data to investigate the emergence and size of the 2017 Women's Marches. Our findings indicate that the protests can be understood through both grievances and threats felt in the aftermath of Trump's election and movement organizational resources. While the impact of movement resources is as expected (more protest in MSAs with greater resources), the effect of grievances and threats is complex. Cautions c…
Labor's Legal Mobilization: Why and when do Workers File Unfair Labor Practices
Whereas workers' use of the strike in workplace disputes has declined over the past decades, their legal mobilization-that is, the filing of unfair labor practice charges against employers-has risen. Little attention in labor sociology has been given to the circumstances in which workers turn to the law. Yet, within the union movement and in other social movements as well, legal mobilization is a commonly used strategy. The author develops and em…
Litigating Change? Social Movements and the Court System
Social movement actors increasingly turn to the law and pursue litigation in their efforts to bring about social change. Our article provides an overview of scholarship on collective and politicized litigation, drawing from sociolegal studies, political science, and sociology. We consider scholarship that illuminates why activists turn to litigation tactics in the first place and circumstances in which a social movement litigation strategy can be…
Legal Limits on Labor Militancy: U. S. Labor Law and the Right to Strike since the New Deal
Since passage of the Wagner Act in 1935, U.S. labor law has guaranteed workers the right to strike. Three years later, the same system of law assured the employer's right to continue production in spite of a strike. This paper explores how the Wagner Act and its subsequent developments have simultaneously empowered workers and constrained their collective capacity to exercise control over the workplace. Historical legal analysis of Wagner and its…
No Weapon Save Argument”: Strategic Frame Amplification in the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movements
U.S. woman suffragists routinely utilized two types of arguments in their demands for voting rights: justice and reform. The former argument held that women should vote because they were men's equals and therefore should have political rights equal to those of men. Reform arguments stated that women should have the ballot because women, given their unique womanly experiences and perspectives, would bring a unique contribution to politics, making …
Disorganizing and Reorganizing Conflict: Outcomes of the State's Legal Regulation of the Strike Since the Wagner Act
Through an examination of U.S. federal labor law's impact on strikes since the Wagner Act, this article evaluates three theories of the state in capitalist society: the structuralist doss, political class, and state-centered theories. Minimal support is found for the statist position that suggests that state actors will pursue their own agendas when they have the bureaucratic capacities to do so, when elections are competitive, or during recessio…
Citizenship and Public Schools: Accounting for Racial Inequality in Education in the Pre- and Post-Disfranchisement South
Building on the arguments that public education is a state-provided good and that citizenship rights affect groups' access to state-provided goods, the authors ask whether an abrupt transformation of U. S. citizenship rights-the disfranchisement of Blacks and many poor Whites in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South-affected the distribution of public educational opportunities and enrollments. Using county-level data for six sout…
Schooling or Working? Public Education, Racial Politics, and the Organization of Production in 1910
Pamela Barnhouse Walters, Holly J. McCammon, David R. James, Schooling or Working? Public Education, Racial Politics, and the Organization of Production in 1910, Sociology of Education, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan., 1990), pp. 1-26
Becoming Full Citizens: The U.S. Women’s Jury Rights Campaigns, the Pace of Reform, and Strategic Adaptation
Few studies of social movement political success investigate the strategic and tactical approaches used to achieve positive political outcomes. This work investigates a rarely studied mobilization of U.S. women in the first half of the 20th century to explore how movement organizations bring about legal change. Archival data for 15 states are examined to investigate how women won the right to sit on juries. The authors argue that jury movement ac…
Winning the Vote in the West: The Political Successes of the Women's Suffrage Movements, 1866-1919
When Congress passed the 19th Amendment in 1919 granting women voting rights, 13 western states had already adopted woman suffrage. Only 2 states outside the West had done so. Using event history analysis, the authors investigate why woman suffrage came early to the western states. Alan Grimes's hypotheses, that native-born, western men were willing to give women the vote to remedy western social problems and to increase the number of women in th…
Government by Injunction: The U.S. Judiciary and Strike Action in the Late 19Th and Early 20th Centuries
The decision among workers to strike is influenced by many factors. Researchers, however, have only recently begun to consider the role of labor law in shaping this decision. This article examines the period from the early 1880s to the early 1930s in which the U.S. courts developed legal policies that allowed them to routinely issue injunctions to halt strikes. The analyses demonstrate that the courts' use of the injunction not only ended the tar…
New methods for social history: New Methods for Social History
During the two decades prior to publication of this book, sociologists had developed a range of new research methods that could be of much use to social historians. This 1999 collection of essays introduces some of the most interesting of these methods: event structure analysis, words-to-numbers, network analysis, qualitative comparative analysis, fuzzy logic, and recursive regression. All essays are written by outstanding experts, address non-in…
Using Event History Analysis in Historical Research: With Illustrations from a Study of the Passage of Women's Protective Legislation
Historians and social scientists often investigate the conditions that influence the occurrence of particular events. For instance, a researcher might be concerned with the causes of revolutionary action in some countries or the forces that unleash racial rioting in major cities. Or perhaps the researcher wishes to examine why industrial workers decide to strike or what prompts policy-makers to pass new legislation. In each of these examples, a q…
The Politics of Protection: State Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours Laws for Women in the United States, 1870-1930
This article examines the factors influencing the enactment of protective legislation for women, specifically maximum hours and minimum wage laws, by state lawmakers in the United States between 1870 and 1930. Traditional class theories of the state argue that employers are generally able to shape state policies to suit their interests. Yet, although employers staunchly opposed protective laws, most states enacted such laws. This article seeks to…
National variation in the context of struggle: Postwar class conflict and market distribution in the capitalist democracies
Comment et pourqui la dynamique des classes varie‐t‐elle d'un pays capitaliste démocratique à l'autre, alors que I'on s'attendrait à découvrir un scénario commun? On ne trouve que peu d'évaluations d'ensemble de cette question qui soient d'inspiration marxiste. Ce manque a pour effet d'invalider diverses conceptions marxistes de l'organisation de classe et de la lutte de classe, en leur donnant souvent une allure exagérément mécaniste. Les approc…
Accounting for Racial Inequality in Southern Education: A Reply to Ramirez
Pamela Barnhouse Walters, David R. James, Holly J. McCammon, Accounting for Racial Inequality in Southern Education: A Reply to Ramirez, Sociology of Education, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Apr., 1990), pp. 145-150
Legal Limits on Labor Militancy: U. S. Labor Law and the Right to Strike since the New Deal
Since passage of the Wagner Act in 1935, U.S. labor law has guaranteed workers the right to strike. Three years later, the same system of law assured the employer's right to continue production in spite of a strike. This paper explores how the Wagner Act and its subsequent developments have simultaneously empowered workers and constrained their collective capacity to exercise control over the workplace. Historical legal analysis of Wagner and its…
Schooling or Working? Public Education, Racial Politics, and the Organization of Production in 1910
Pamela Barnhouse Walters, Holly J. McCammon, David R. James, Schooling or Working? Public Education, Racial Politics, and the Organization of Production in 1910, Sociology of Education, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan., 1990), pp. 1-26
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh
Rights v. Conspiracy: A Sociological Essay on the History of Labour Law in the United States. Anthony Woodiwiss
Urban Revolt: Ethnic Politics in the Nineteenth-Century Chicago Labor Movement. Eric L. Hirsch
From Repressive Intervention to Integrative Prevention: The U.S. State's Legal Management of Labor Militancy, 1881-1978
Journal Article From Repressive Intervention to Integrative Prevention: The U.S. State's Legal Management of Labor Militancy, 1881–1978 Get access Holly J. McCammon Holly J. McCammon Vanderbilt University Direct correspondence to Holly J. McCammon, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 71, Issue 3, March 1993, Pages 569–60…
Government by Injunction: The U.S. Judiciary and Strike Action in the Late 19Th and Early 20th Centuries
The decision among workers to strike is influenced by many factors. Researchers, however, have only recently begun to consider the role of labor law in shaping this decision. This article examines the period from the early 1880s to the early 1930s in which the U.S. courts developed legal policies that allowed them to routinely issue injunctions to halt strikes. The analyses demonstrate that the courts' use of the injunction not only ended the tar…
Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise
Disorganizing and Reorganizing Conflict: Outcomes of the State's Legal Regulation of the Strike Since the Wagner Act
Through an examination of U.S. federal labor law's impact on strikes since the Wagner Act, this article evaluates three theories of the state in capitalist society: the structuralist doss, political class, and state-centered theories. Minimal support is found for the statist position that suggests that state actors will pursue their own agendas when they have the bureaucratic capacities to do so, when elections are competitive, or during recessio…
The Politics of Protection: State Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours Laws for Women in the United States, 1870-1930
This article examines the factors influencing the enactment of protective legislation for women, specifically maximum hours and minimum wage laws, by state lawmakers in the United States between 1870 and 1930. Traditional class theories of the state argue that employers are generally able to shape state policies to suit their interests. Yet, although employers staunchly opposed protective laws, most states enacted such laws. This article seeks to…
Protection for Whom: Maximum Hours Laws and Women's Employment in the United States, 1880-1920
Around the turn of the century, many states enacted laws restricting the hours women could work. Yet little research has been done on the impact of these laws on women's employment. Traditional feminist political theories suggest that these laws disadvantaged women relative to men by reducing employers' willingness to hire women workers. Traditional class theories, focusing on employers' class interests, suggest that these laws were weakly implem…
The Puzzle of Strikes: Class and State Strategies in Postwar Italy.Roberto Franzosi
Citizenship and Public Schools: Accounting for Racial Inequality in Education in the Pre- and Post-Disfranchisement South
Building on the arguments that public education is a state-provided good and that citizenship rights affect groups' access to state-provided goods, the authors ask whether an abrupt transformation of U. S. citizenship rights-the disfranchisement of Blacks and many poor Whites in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South-affected the distribution of public educational opportunities and enrollments. Using county-level data for six sout…
Shaping Judicial Law in the Post-World War II Period: When Is Labor's Legal Mobilization Successful?1
We examine the circumstances in which labor is successful in the federal appellate courts when it has filed unfair labor practice charges against employers. We specifically focus on legal disputes concerning union organizing. Few studies have examined the role of class dynamics in shaping judicial law, even when labor law is studied. We find evidence that two strategies used by class actors influence judicial lawmaking. The greater the degree to …
Using Event History Analysis in Historical Research: With Illustrations from a Study of the Passage of Women's Protective Legislation
Historians and social scientists often investigate the conditions that influence the occurrence of particular events. For instance, a researcher might be concerned with the causes of revolutionary action in some countries or the forces that unleash racial rioting in major cities. Or perhaps the researcher wishes to examine why industrial workers decide to strike or what prompts policy-makers to pass new legislation. In each of these examples, a q…
New methods for social history: New Methods for Social History
During the two decades prior to publication of this book, sociologists had developed a range of new research methods that could be of much use to social historians. This 1999 collection of essays introduces some of the most interesting of these methods: event structure analysis, words-to-numbers, network analysis, qualitative comparative analysis, fuzzy logic, and recursive regression. All essays are written by outstanding experts, address non-in…
Workers and their Customers and Clients: An Editorial Introduction
Les etudes sur le secteur des services ont rarement ete etudiees de facon systematique. C'est pourquoi l'A. propose 3 postulats de departs pour remedier a cette lacune : 1) le controle des employeurs sur les ouvriers, 2) les experiences et les strategies des ouvriers travaillant dans le service, 3) l'experience et le pouvoir des clients dans une interaction de service
How Movements Win: Gendered Opportunity Structures and U.S. Women's Suffrage Movements, 1866 to 1919
State women's suffrage movements are investigated to illuminate the circumstances in which social movements bring about political change. In 29 states, suffragists were able to win significant voting rights prior to passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. In addition to resource mobilization, cultural framing, and political opportunity structures, the authors theorize that gendered opportunities also fostered the successes of the movements. An event…
Stirring Up Suffrage Sentiment: The Formation of the State Woman Suffrage Organizations, 1866-1914
In nearly every state around the turn of the twentieth century, suffragists mobilized in grassroots suffrage organizations to secure the vote for women. While movement researchers have theorized that political opportunities are important in explaining why movements emerge, the results from an examination of the emergence of the state suffrage movements show that the mobilization of various resources along with the way in which pro-suffrage argume…
Winning the Vote in the West: The Political Successes of the Women's Suffrage Movements, 1866-1919
When Congress passed the 19th Amendment in 1919 granting women voting rights, 13 western states had already adopted woman suffrage. Only 2 states outside the West had done so. Using event history analysis, the authors investigate why woman suffrage came early to the western states. Alan Grimes's hypotheses, that native-born, western men were willing to give women the vote to remedy western social problems and to increase the number of women in th…
Labor's Legal Mobilization: Why and when do Workers File Unfair Labor Practices
Whereas workers' use of the strike in workplace disputes has declined over the past decades, their legal mobilization-that is, the filing of unfair labor practice charges against employers-has risen. Little attention in labor sociology has been given to the circumstances in which workers turn to the law. Yet, within the union movement and in other social movements as well, legal mobilization is a commonly used strategy. The author develops and em…
Allies On the Road to Victory: Coalition Formation Between The Suffragists and The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Social movement organizations frequently enter into coalitions with other movement groups. Yet few movement scholars have investigated the circumstances that foster coalition work. This article analyzes both the contextual and organizational factors that spurred coalitions between women's suffrage organizations and Woman's Christian Temperance Unions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as they worked to win voting rights for wome…
Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition
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