Explain the changing roles of class, gender and race in the formation of social movements. If the labour movement is traditionally thought to be a class movement, par excellence, does this mean that subsequent (“new”) social movements, among women or racial minorities, are simply not class movements, or that class concerns today are remnants of old social movements?

Explain the changing roles of class, gender and race in the formation of social movements.  If the labour movement is traditionally thought to be a class movement, par excellence, does this mean that subsequent (“new”) social movements, among women or racial minorities, are simply not class movements, or that class concerns today are remnants of old social movements?