This revised edition of a well-known and widely used text in community organizing and development fully examines the broad and changing political and social settings that influence actions; while portraying the infra-structure of social change -- the knowledge, personnel, and organizations -- that enable such work to be successfully accomplished. The text brings together the practicalities of organizing and development -- fund raising, working out news releases, running an organization, orchestrating political actions, academic knowledge -- and explains why various approaches work; as well as the values and ideologies that guide what is to be done. It provides the foundations of organizing and development work and then describes how activists -- through following either a social confrontation model or an economic and social production approach -- can respond to economic and social problems.
- ISBN10 0205408133
- ISBN13 9780205408139
- Publish Date 19 April 2007 (first published 27 February 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 February 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 4th edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 480
- Language English