Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation.(Book Review)
Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation. By Verity Burgmann (Crows Nest, [Sydney]: Allen and Unwin, 2003), pp. 400, $39.95.
This book provides an interesting and thoughtful analysis of several movements for change in Australian society; namely the Aboriginal movement, the women's movement, the green movement and the anti-capitalist/anti-corporate globalisation movements. It combines some entirely new material (chapters 5 and 6) with several revised chapters from her 1993 text Power and Protest: Movements for Social Change in Australian Society.
One of the strengths of the book lies in Burgmann's nuanced and perceptive discussion of the internal dynamics and trajectories of the movements--their support base, core symbols and abstract goals, ideological divisions, political resources and current campaigns and challenges. …
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