I'm not sure how to frame this question exactly, but what I'm looking for is historical writing which focuses on the functional mechanics used by organizations in social movements to pursue their goals. Just the pure, day-to-day constituent activities of organizing and the organizational structures used to do them.
In typing this out I guess I'm imagining a text which collects and produces primary source documents, with comments by the author which tie them together and fill out the historical context. Like if an organization had a training program, the text would describe its content, length, and the thought behind it, with reading lists used by the org reproduced in the text; or if an organization was national but operated chapters, the text would reproduce an organizational chart (administrative positions, role descriptions etc) and describe how these functioned in practice. etc etc
I've read a few more recently published books that talk about organizing traditions in social movements, such as top-down vs community-based organizing in the civil rights movements, but their focus tends to be more ideological (why it was done that way) than functional (the day-to-day of how it was done). And the writing tends to be more narrative than descriptive in general.
This is kind of an imprecise question but if you're able to help I'd appreciate it. If there's not a field but an individual author who writes in this way, or if the writing is of this kind but not about social movements in particular, I'd be happy to hear about those as well.
If I understand your question correctly, I suggest you look into some of the work in organizing unions -- most definitely social movements. There are oodles of books that describe various organizing tactics (and of course the counter-tactics of management.)
If you have access to a university library, consider wandering into the HD803X section and thumb thru a few books to see if this is what you're looking for.
A couple suggestions:
Rick Halpern, Down on the Killing Floor -- great history of tactics of various groups in organizing the packinghouse workers in Chicago. Loads of stuff on how workers sought to organize, outside groups sought to help them, and how management sought to avoid this.
Jim Barrett, Work and Community in "The Jungle" -- this looks at working-class life in the Chicago during the time of Sinclair's The Jungle. How community members formed ad hoc organizations to care for each other, get thru hard times, and support each other. A great look at how workers united informally, outside of the workplace.
Andrew Cohen, The Racketeer's Progress -- a bit more towards the political economy of union and labor organizing, Cohen delves into the tactics used to influence policy with respect to labor.
Jack Metzgar, Striking Steel -- a look at the ways in which steelworkers organized, dealt with strikes (food and money issues,) and the culture of the union steelworker. Really excellent writing and highly informative.
Nelson Lichtenstein. Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit -- A bio of UAW leader Reuther that gets way into organizing tactics, both at the shop level and at the governmental/political level. Required reading for labor historians, IMO.
Howell Harris, The Right to Manage -- as the title suggests, this is a look at management's attempts to stave off union organizing. Excellent work.
Hope this helps, and good luck.