Mobilization at the margins: Resources, benefactors, and the viability of homeless social movement organizations

American Sociological Review

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1089-1109

  Cress, Daniel M ^a   Snow, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 0001292872     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2096310     Document Type: Article

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