Here are some of the case studies explored in Rules of Activism, by Charles Euchner:
Grassroots Organizing: How organizers talk, listen, and learn in community work, with techniques developed by the Industrial Areas Fund.
Second-Wave Feminism: How feminists of the 1960s found their identity through personal crisis, involvement in activism, and a fast-changing society.
Antiwar Movements: The challenge of finding a unifying message to fight destructive and unwise wars.
The Gay Revolution: The move from rampant discrimination and ridicule to basic rights.
Justice for Janitors and the SEIU: How the unlikeliest group of workers–low wage, low-education, non-English-speaking immigrants–helped to revive the labor movement.
Greenpeace:The strategies and tactics of radical environmentalists–and how they made the move from protest to policy.
The Civil Rights Movement: Who were the leaders of the movement? Were they the charismatics, like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X? The visionaries like Philip Randoph and Bayard Rustin? Or was it the technocrats, the youth, or the teachers?
The United Farm Workers: The power of boycotts to help a marginalized group engage a whole nation.
Stealth Activists: The Zoot Suitors, the Sanctuary Movement, and The Value Turners: Working behind the scenes, these activists did what they coukld for their causes in the shadows.
Tax Revolts: The ultimate form of withdrawing consent, tax revolts have not played a major role in small-d democratic activism in recent years. How miughtvthat change?
The Battle of Seattle: How a massive campaign of nonviolent direct action changed the debate about globalism.
Occupy: By taking over public places all over the world, the Occupy movement transformed the way people talk about growing inequality. But did they solve any problem?
Love Canal: A high school-educated mother jerked the environmental movement into the streets and the ordinary lives or ordinary people.
The Anti-Nukes Movement: The Clamshell Alliance’s was frustrated by the failure of their movement against the Seabrook nuclear plant. But did they win?