.... Since these shifts overlapped with the social activism of the 1960s, many medical students at Cornell became passionately engaged in outreach efforts to underserved patients. Faced with postwar inflation, hospitals focused on private patient admissions in order to increase revenue. Concerns were raised...

... Indies. Ultimately, the chapter investigates how the shift in the direction of labor mobilization, union organizing, and strike activity in the Indies in 1917–1918 coincided with developments around the world to encourage and inspire an escalation of social activism and political action by the SI...

... how the categorization of males and females was transformed and how definitions of the private sphere came to encompass a covertly political role. It suggests that some women found scope for social activism as an extension of their domestic responsibilities. Gentlewoman’s Companion The Woolley women...

... by advocates in the state, political parties, and domestic companies as part of a developmentalist project. The chapter also considers the interplay of resource nationalism and social activism with activism pursuing environmental protection. It explains how booms boost the structural and instrumental power...