| Description |
xii, 468 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Social action : magnifying power through coalitions -- 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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 444-463 |
| Subject |
Community development -- United States.
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Community organization -- United States.
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Social action -- United States.
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Community power -- United States.
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| Author |
Rubin, Irene.
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| LC no. |
2006037691 |
| ISBN |
0205408133 |
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