The importance of being "we": Collective identity and the mobilizing work of progressive activists in hartford, connecticut

Mobilization

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-84

  Valocchf, Stephen ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

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