Includes bibliographical references (p. 444-463) and index.
Contents:
Progressive organizing -- Organizing and development for progressive social change -- A world of action : a world of hope -- Models for implementing progressive social change : commonalities, differences, and reconciliations -- The three pillars of progressive organizing -- Empowering individuals -- Building community to create capacity for change -- Empowering through building progressive organizations -- Problems, programs, and precedents -- Social problems and public policy -- Intersecting histories : community organizing, issue mobilization, and social movements -- Learning about personal, community, and social needs through action research -- Building capacity to initiate collective action -- Activists, organizers, and social change professionals -- Creating capacity through effective organizational administration -- Expanding capacity through empowering, participatory meetings -- Building capacity by working with the support sector -- Compelling change through social mobilization -- An overview to social mobilization campaigns -- Mobilizing individuals and groups -- Influencing the public sector : civic and administrative engagement -- Compelling change through power tactics -- Tools for strengthening social mobilization campaigns : lawyers and litigation, publicity and the mass media, negotiations -- Social action : magnifying power through coalitions -- Implementing change through the community economic development and social production approach -- An introduction to the community economic development and social production model -- Skills for accomplishing economic and social production work -- Epilogue : working toward a progressive society.
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