Young people are rediscovering a vision that ‘another world is possible’ and dedicating themselves to public service. Alice and Staughton Lynd offer a significant model of what it can mean…

The strength of this book …encompasses a broad view of history from the bottom up and deals not only with biographical background of the nonelite in labor but with insights…

In Accompanying, Staughton Lynd distinguishes two strategies of social change. The first, characteristic of the 1960s Movement in the United States, is organizing. The second, articulated by Archbishop Oscar Romero…

Contents: Foreword ix; I. Social Science in Crisis 1; II. The Concept of Culture 11; III. The Pattern of American Culture 54; IV. The Social Sciences as Tools 114; V…

This sequel to Middletown returns to the same community in 1935, to examine the changes brought about by the prosperity of the late 1920s and the subsequent Depression. Preface by…

Bureaucratic labor unions are under assault. Most unions have surrendered the achievements of the mid-twentieth century, when the working class was a militant force for change throughout the world. Now…

Former civil rights activist James Marshall tells the complete story of the quest for civil rights in Mississippi. Using a voluminous array of sources as well as his own memories…

Evaluates the prospects for US peace education in the context of post-1945 US foreign policy. This work documents the disparity between US pronouncements about protecting human rights and the country’s…