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Arguing that the frame analysis typical to the political process & resource mobilization perspectives on social movements has limited understanding of the cultures of such movements, an alternative dialogic perspective is proposed. It is suggested that discourse among & by activists in social movement organizations is, in part, shaped by the cultural practices available for them to make meaning. Focusing on discourse as a relational process, it is shown how ongoing dialogic processes both shape & are shaped by social movement culture. A case study of 19th-century silk weavers in the Spitalfields district of London, England, demonstrates the dialogic repertoires used to make claims, articulate sense of justice, & express identities. It is demonstrated how the weavers opposed domination by their employers by borrowing from the employers' own discourses of power to create their own oppositional discourses. Ways that these discursive repertoires both channeled & limited weavers' options in their struggles against the "dominant genres of political economy, Christian piety, & nationalism" are explored. K. Hyatt Stewart