Community Organizing and Development / Edition 4

by Herbert Rubin, Irene Rubin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780205408139
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	02/20/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.25(d)

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Part One: Progressive Organizing

Chapter 1: Organizing and Development for Progressive Social Change

Chapter 2: A World of Action: A World of Hope

Chapter 3: Models for Implementing Progressive Social Change: Commonalities, Differences and Reconciliations

Part Two: The Three Pillars of Progressive Organizing

Chapter 4: Empowering Individuals

Chapter 5: Building Community to Create Capacity for Change

Chapter 6: Empowering Through Building Progressive Organizations

Part Three: Problems, Programs and Precedents

Chapter 7: Social Problems and Public Policy

Chapter 8: Intersecting Histories: Community Organizing, Issue Mobilization, and Social Movements

Chapter 9: Learning About Personal, Community, and Social Needs Through Action Research

Part Four: Building Capacity to Initiate Collective Action

Chapter 10: Activists, Organizers, and Social Change Professionals

Chapter 11: Creating Capacity Through Effective Organizational Administration

Chapter 12: Expanding Capacity Through Empowering, Participatory Meetings

Chapter 13: Building Capacity By Working with the Support Sector

Part Five: Compelling Change Through Social Mobilization

Chapter 14: An Overview to Social Mobilization Campaigns

Chapter 15: Mobilizing Individuals and Groups

Chapter 16: Influencing the Public Sector:Civic and Administrative Engagement

Chapter 17: Compelling Change Through Power Tactics

Chapter 18: Tools for Strengthening Social Mobilization Campaigns: Lawyers and Litigation Publicity and the Mass Media; Negotiations

Chapter 19: Social Action: Magnifying Power Through Coalitions.

Part Six: Implementing Change Through the Community Economic Development and Social Production Approach

Chapter 20: An Introduction to the Community Economic Development and Social Production Model

Chapter 21: Skills for Accomplishing Economic and Social Production Work

Part Seven: Epilogue: Working Toward a Progressive Society

Chapter 22: Epilogue: Working Toward a Progressive Society

Bibliography