Why do people join social movements? What keeps them involved once they have joined? These central questions in the study of social movements are newly investigated in this study of the interwar Green Shirt Movement. The Green Shirts are the only example in Britain of an anti-war, mixed sex youth movement which became a uniformed, political organisation, marching the streets and mobilising amongst the unemployed. Half a century after the movement came to an end it remains, for surviving members, the most important experience of their lives. This book uses their experiences to cast new light on the concepts of commitment, charisma and affiliation in social movements.

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University of Wales, Cardif, UK

Mark Drakeford

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Book Title: Social Movements and their Supporters
Book Subtitle: The Greenshirts in England
Authors: Mark Drakeford
Editors: Jo Campling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137001627
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-65067-7Published: 05 March 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00162-7Published: 05 March 1997
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 236
Topics: Sociology, general, Political Sociology, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Political Communication

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