For the most recent work on this topic, refer to current publications

The following list is a small sample of readings to introduce non-specialists to the literature on social movements in Canada. Below is another list of sample readings for social movement theory and international social movements.

Canada

• Adam, Barry, The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995).
• Adamson, Nancy, Feminist Organizing for Change: The Contemporary Women’s Movement in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988).
• Camfield, David. "Neoliberalism and Working-Class Resistance in British Columbia: The Hospital Employees' Union Struggle, 2002-2004." Labour Le Travail 57, no. 1 (2006): 9-41.
  
• Carroll, William K., Ed. Organizing Dissent: Contemporary Social Movements in Theory and in Practice. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1997.
  
• ———. and R.S. Ratner. "Sustaining Oppositional Cultures in ‘Post-Socialist' Times: A Comparative Study of Three Social Movement Organisations." Sociology 35, no. 3 (2001): 605-29.
  
• ———. Challenges and Perils: Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2005.
  
• ———. "The NDP Regime in British Columbia,1991-2001: A Post-Mortem." Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 42, no. 2 (2005): 167-96.
• Clark, Samuel D., Prophesy and Protest: Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Canada (Toronto: Gage, 1975).
• Clément, Dominique. [Visit the webmaster page for a complete list of the author's scholarship].
• Cleveland, John W. "New Left, Not New Liberal: 1960s Movements in English Canada and Quebec." Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 41, no. 1 (2004): 67-84.
• Cunningham, Frank, Ed. Social Movements/Social Change: The Politics and Practice of Organizing. Toronto: Between the Lines, 1988.
• Dupuis-Déri, Francis, ed. Québec En Mouvements: Idées Et Pratiques Militantes Contemporaires. Montreal: Lux Éditeur, 2008.
• Early, Frances. "Canadian Women and the International Arena in the Sixties: The Voice of Women/La Voix Des Femmes and the Opposition to the Vietnam War." In The Sixties: Passion, Politics and Style, edited by Dimitry Anastakis, 25-41. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008.
  
• Ellison, Jenny. ""Stop Postponing Your Life until You Lose Weight and Start Living Now": Vancouver's Large as Life Action Group, 1979-1985." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 18, no. 1 (2007): 241-65.
• Goldfield, Michael, and Bryan Palmer. "Canada's Workers Movement: Uneven Developments." Labour/Le Travail 59 (2007): 149-78.
  
• Griffin, Betty, and Susan Lockhart. Their Own History: Women's Contribution to the Labour Movement in British Columbia. New Westminster: United Fishermen & Allied Workers Union, 2002.
  
• Hammond-Callaghan, Marie, and Matthew Hayday. Mobilizations, Protests and Engagements: Canadian Perspectives on Social Movements. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2008.
  
• Harter, John Henry. "Social Justice for Whom? Class, New Social Movements and the Environment: A Case Study of Greenpeace Canada, 1971-2000." MA, Simon Fraser University, 2001.
  
• Hébert, Karine. Impatient D'être Soi-Même: Les Étudiants Montréalais, 1895-1960. Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2008.
  
• James, Matt. Misrecognized Materialists: Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.
• Johnston, Hugh. Radical Campus: Making Simon Fraser University. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 2005.
• Lambertson, Ross, Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930-1960 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).
• Lemire, Marc. "Anti-Market Globalization Social Movements." In Québec: State and Society, edited by Alain-G. Gagnon, 245-70. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2004.
  
• Leys, Colin and Mendell, Marguerite, Culture and Social Change: Social Movements in Québec and Ontario (Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1992).
• Little, Margaret Hillyard. "Militant Mothers Fight Poverty: The Just Society Movement, 1968-1971." Labour/Le Travail 59 (2007): 179-98.
• Luxton, Meg. "Feminism as a Class Act: Working-Class Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Canada." Labour/Le Travail 48 (2001): 63-88.
• Manfredi, Christopher, Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court: Legal Mobilization and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004).
• Mehta, Michael D. Risky Business: Nuclear Power and Public Protest in Canada. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005.
• Mildred, Grace Josephine. The Fourth World: An Indigenous Perspective on Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Activism. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2002.
• Noel, Jan, Canada Dry: Temperance Crusades Before Confederation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995).
• Owram, Doug, Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996).
• Pal, Leslie, Interests of State: The Politics of Language, Multiculturalism, and Feminism in Canada (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993).
• Panitch, Leo, and Donald Swartz. From Consent to Coercion: The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms. 3rd. ed. Aurora: Garamond Press, 2003.
  
• Ramos, Howard. "What Causes Canadian Aboriginal Protest? Examining Resources, Opportunities and Identity, 1951–2000." Canadian Journal of Sociology 31, no. 2 (2006): 211-35.
  
• ———. "Aboriginal Protest." In Social Movements, edited by Suzanne Staggenborg, 55-70. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  
• Rebick, Judy. Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2005.
• Becki Ross, "A Lesbian Politics of Erotic Decolonization," in Painting the Maple: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Construction of Canada, ed. Veronica Strong-Boag, Sherill Grace, Avigail Eisenberg and Joan Anderson (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998).
• ———.The House that Jill Built: A Lesbian Nation in Formation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995).
• Sheldrick, Byron. Perils and Possibilities: Social Activism and the Law. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2004.
  
• Smith, Miriam. "Interest Groups and Social Movements." In Canadian Politics in the 21st Century, edited by Michael Whittington and Glen Williams. Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2004.
  
• ———. A Civil Society? Collective Actors in Canadian Political Life. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2005.
  
• ———. "Social Movements and Judicial Empowerment: Courts, Public Policy, and Lesbian and Gay Organizing in Canada." Politics & Society 33, no. 2 (2005): 327-53.
  
• ———. Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2007.
  
• Staggenborg, Suzanne. Social Movements. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  
• Vogel, Donna. Challenging Politics: Cope, Electoral Politics and Social Movements. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2003.
  
• Warner, Tom. Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
  
• Warren, Jean-Philippe. Les Mouvements Étudiants Des Années 1960. Montreal: Lux Éditeur, 2008.
  
• ———. Une Douce Anarchie: Les Années 68 Au Québec. Montreal: Boréal, 2008.
  
• Zelco, Frank. "Making Greenpeace: The Development of Direct Action Environmentalism in British Columbia." BC Studies, no. 142/143 (2004): 197-239.

International and Theory

• Anderson, Gary L., and Kathryn G. Herr. Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice. Vol. 1-3. London: Sage Publications, 2007.
• Bantjes, Rod, ed. Social Movements in a Global Context: Canadian Perspectives Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press Incorporated, 2007.
• Bosi, Lorzenzo. "The Dynamics of Social Movement Development: Northern Ireland's Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s." Mobilization 11, no. 1 (2006): 81-100.
• Burgmann, Verity. Power, Profit, and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation 2ed. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2003.
• ———. "Labour and the New Social Movements: The Australian Story." Paper presented at the International Political Science Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan 2007.
• ———. "The Green Bans Movement: Workers’ Power and Ecological Radicalism in Australia in the 1970s." Journal for the Study of Radicalism 2, no. 1 (2008): 63-89.
• Chaves, Mark, Laura Stephens, and Joseph Galaskiewicz. "Does Government Funding Suppress Nonprofits' Political Activity?" American Sociological Review 69, no. 2 (2004): 292-316.
• Clawson, Dan. The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements. Ithaca and London: ILR Press, 2003.
• Conway, Janet M. Identity, Place, Knowledge: Social Movements, Contesting Globalization. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2004.
• Cress, Daniel M., and David A. Snow. "The Outcomes of Homeless Mobilization: The Influence of Organization, Disruption, Political Mediation, and Framing." American Journal of Sociology 105, no. 4 (2000): 1063-104.
• Davis, Gerald F., Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott, and Mayer N. Zald, eds. Social Movements and Organization Theory. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Earl, Jennifer. "Controlling Protest: New Directions for Research on the Social Control of Protest." In Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, edited by Patrick G. Coy, 55-83. Greenwhich: Jai Press, 2004.
• Frampton, Caelie, Gary Kinsman, Andrew Thompson, and Kate Tilleczek, eds. Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2006.
• Goodwin, Jeff, and James M. Jasper, eds. Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning and Emotion, People, Passion, and Power. Toronto: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004.
• Grimshaw, Patricia, Nell Musgrove, and Shurlee Swain. "The Australian Labour Movement and Working Mothers in the United Nations' Decade for Women, 1975-1985." In The Time of Their Lives: The Eight Hour Day and Working Life, edited by Julie Kimber and Peter Love, 137-49. Melbourne: Australia Society for the Study of Labour History, 2007.
• Heale, M.J. The Sixties in America: History, Politics and Protest. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001.
• Klandermans, Bert, and Suzanne Staggenborg. Methods of Social Movement Research. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
• Kolb, Felix. Protest and Opportunities: A Theory of Social Movements and Political Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
• Lichtenstein, Nelson. State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
• McAdam, D., Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly. Dynamics of Contention. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Melucci, Alberto. "Social Movements in Complex Societies: A European Perspective." ARENA Journal 15 (2000): 81-100.
• Meyer, David S., and Suzanne Staggenborg. "Opposing Movement Strategies in U.S. Abortion Politics." In Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, edited by Patrick G. Roy, 207-38. Greenwhich: Jai Press, 2008.
• Molyneux, Maxine, and Sian Lazar. Doing the Rights Thing: Rights-Based Development and Latin American NGOs. London: ITDG Publishing, 2003.
• Payne, Charles M., and Adam Green. Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
• Porta, Donatella Della, and Mario Diani. Social Movements: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
• Putnam, Robert. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon & Shuster, 2000.
• Ruggiero, Vincenzo, and Nicola Montagna, eds. Social Movements: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 2008.
• Snow, David A., Sarah A. Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. Maiden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
• Staggenborg, Suzanne. Social Movements. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Stammers, Neil, ed. Rights, Movements, Recognition. Vol. 6, Papers in Social Theory. Sussex: Warwick Social Theory Centre, 2001.
• ———. Human Rights and Social Movements. London: Pluto Press, 2009.
• Tilly, Charles. Social Movements, 1768-2004. London: Paradigm Publishers, 2004.
• Tilly, Charles. Contentious Performances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Touraine, Alain. Beyond Neoliberalism. London: Polity Press, 2001.