Community organizing and development /
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| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Pearson/Allyn & Bacon,
2008.
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
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Table of Contents:
- Progressive organizing
- Organizing and development for progressive social change
- A world of action : a world of hope
- Models for implementing progressive social change : commonalities, differences, and reconciliations
- The three pillars of progressive organizing
- Empowering individuals
- Building community to create capacity for change
- Empowering through building progressive organizations
- Problems, programs, and precedents
- Social problems and public policy
- Intersecting histories : community organizing, issue mobilization, and social movements
- Learning about personal, community, and social needs through action research
- Building capacity to initiate collective action
- Activists, organizers, and social change professionals
- Creating capacity through effective organizational administration
- Expanding capacity through empowering, participatory meetings
- Building capacity by working with the support sector
- Compelling change through social mobilization
- An overview to social mobilization campaigns
- Mobilizing individuals and groups
- Influencing the public sector : civic and administrative engagement
- Compelling change through power tactics
- Tools for strengthening social mobilization campaigns : lawyers and litigation, publicity and the mass media, negotiations
- Social action : magnifying power through coalitions
- Implementing change through the community economic development and social production approach
- An introduction to the community economic development and social production model
- Skills for accomplishing economic and social production work
- Epilogue : working toward a progressive society.