Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy
- ISBN-10
- 0803957920
- ISBN-13
- 9780803957923
- Series
- Community Organizing
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 196
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-06-10
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Authors
- Avis Vidal, Ross J. Gittell
Description
Providing new insight into an important community development challenge, this text looks at how to stimulate the formation of community-based organizations and effective citizen action in neighbourhoods.
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- 2014-04-28
- 408 pages
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- 1998-06-10
- 207 pages
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