Community Organizing and Development
- ISBN-10
- 0205408133
- ISBN-13
- 9780205408139
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Science / General
- Pages
- 468
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Pearson/Allyn & Bacon
- Authors
- Herbert J. Rubin, Irene Rubin
Description
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.
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