A Wave of Scientist Collective Action

The barricade construction moving beyond neighborhoods in the French revolution of 1848, the factory councils in the Russian revolution of 1905, the sitdown strikes of the French Popular Front and the American New Deal, the direct actions of the 1968-1972 period in the uncertainty and exuberance of the early period of a cycle of mobilization, innovation accelerates and new forms of contention are developed and diffused. 

I interpret this movement as contentious politics, but it was a subtle form of contention, primarily implicit in scientist-activists conventional institutionbuilding activities. The movement challenged the disciplinary organization of 

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Top Ten Journals for Chemical Mutagenesis Information (cumulative through 1972)  

Source John S. Wasson, The literature of chemical mutagenesis. Mutagens Principles and Methods for Their Development, vol. Alexander Hollaender, 271-287. New York Plenum Press. In Chemical 3, edited by 

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