Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition updates and expands its exploration of a wide range of organized group and social movement activity in Canadian politics.

Preface
List of Key Acronyms
Introduction: Theories of Group and Movement Organizing, Miriam Smith

Part I: Political Economy
1. Business Interests and Civil Society in Canada, Peter Clancy
2. Party On or Party's Over? Organized Labour and Canadian Politics, Charlotte Yates & Amanda Coles
3. Farm Groups in Canadian Politics, Grace Skogstad
4. Mobilizing On the Defensive: Anti-Poverty Advocacy and Activism in Times of Austerity, Jonathan Greene
5. Occupy: History, Physicality, Virtuality, Matt James

Part II: Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion
6. Ethnocultural Political Mobilization, Multiculturalism, and Human Rights in Canada, Audrey Kobayashi
7. The Women's Movement in Flux: Feminism and Framing, Passion, and Politics, Alexandra Dobrowolsky
8. Identity and Opportunity: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Movement, Miriam Smith
9. Populist and Conservative Christian Evangelical Movements: A Comparison of Canada and the United States, Trevor W. Harrison

Part III: Nations and Nationalism
10. Aysaka'paykinit: Contesting the Rope Around the Nations' Neck, Kiera L. Ladner

11. Nationalism and Protest: The Sovereignty Movement in Quebec, Pascale Dufour and Christophe Traisnel

Part IV: Environment, Disability, and Health
12. The Canadian Environmental Movement: Remembering Who We Are, Robert Paehlke
13. Meaning Frames, Opportunity Structures, and Rights in the Canadian Disability Rights Movement, Lisa Vanhala
14. Health Social Movements: The Next Wave in Contentious Politics? Michael Orsini

List of Contributors
Index