This handbook on social movements revolution and social transformation analyzes people's
struggles to bring about social change in the age of globalization. It examines the origins
nature dynamics and challenges of such movements as they aim to change dominant social
economic and political institutions and structures across the globe. Departing from a
theoretical introduction that explores major classical and contemporary theories of social
movements and transformation the contributions collected here use a class-based approach to
examine key cases of social movements rebellions and revolutions worldwide from the turn of
the twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries. Against this wide-ranging background the
handbook concludes by charting the varied and competing future developments and trajectories of
social movements revolutions and social transformations.
