M. Jasper James. The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography and Creativity in Social Movements

The University of Chicago Press, 1997. — 514 p. In The Art of Moral Protest, James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest — from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements — into a distinctive new understanding of how social movements work. Jasper highlights their creativity, not only in forging new morals but in adopting courses of action and inventing organizational forms.