Community Organizing and Development (4th Edition)

This revised edition of a well-known and widely used text in community organizing and developmentfully 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 whyvarious 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.