Community Organizing and Development (4th edition)

About this book

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.