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Title Dilemmas of activism : class, community, and the politics of local mobilization / edited by Joseph M. Kling and Prudence S. Posner
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1990

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Description xi, 327 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction / Prudence S. Posner -- Class and community in an era of urban transformation / Joseph M. Kling and Prudence S. Posner -- The American working class and the community : workplace dichotomy : selections from the writings of Ira Katznelson / edited by Prudence S. Posner -- Leading the people : two approaches to the role of ideology in community organizing / Robert Fisher and Joseph M. Kling -- Family and class in contemporary America : notes toward an understanding of ideology / Rayna Rapp -- The politics of Black empowerment in urban America : reflections on race, class, and community / James Jennings -- New wine in old bottles : Southern populism and the dilemmas of class, ideology, and state power / Bruce Palmer -- The perils of petty production : the agricultural crisis / Rona Weiss
Two roads left : strategies of resistance to plant closings in the Monongahela Valley / Sidney Plotkin and William E. Scheuerman -- Enclave consciousness and neighborhood activism / Sidney Plotkin -- The agony and the equity : strategies for building low-income housing / Tony Schuman -- Changing the conversation : reconstructing public discourse about education / Svi Shapiro -- Working-class women, social protest, and changing ideologies / Ida Susser -- Transformative populism and the development of a community of color / Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly with Mauricio Gaston
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Community organization -- United States.
Community power -- United States.
Social action -- United States.
Social classes -- United States.
Author Kling, Joseph M.
Posner, Prudence Sarah.
LC no. 89027678
ISBN 0877226962 (alk. paper)