Author: Clément Petitjean
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642599417
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A trenchant history of community organizing and a must-read for the next generation of organizers seeking to learn from the successes, failures, and contradictions of the past. The community organizing tradition is long overdue for reexamination. In Occupation: Organizer, scholar and activist Clément Petitjean traces that history from its roots in the Progressive movement to its expansion and diverging paths during the social movements of the 1960s and ’70s, when Saul Alinsky became the most popular “professional radical” in the US while groups like Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Black Panthers recast organizers as horizontal, antihierarchical spadeworkers—those who do the work as part of the community, rather than standing apart from it. But in the years since, the professionalization of organizing work has only increased, despite the critiques. Only by grappling with its limitations and pitfalls, Petitjean insists, can we learn to build durable, effective organizations for change.
Occupation: Organizer
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
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Category : Employment forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Publisher:
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Category : Employment forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Media Narratives: Productions and Representations of Contemporary Mythologies
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900451838X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Media narratives are the “reflection” of current beliefs and ideas. The case studies in this volume represent an exceptional field of research on dominant mythologies; examples from several countries reveal that media narratives express a dominant consumer storytelling.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900451838X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Media narratives are the “reflection” of current beliefs and ideas. The case studies in this volume represent an exceptional field of research on dominant mythologies; examples from several countries reveal that media narratives express a dominant consumer storytelling.
People, building neighborhoods
Author: United States. National Commission on Neighborhoods
Publisher:
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Category : Community development, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Community development, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Women in Midlife--security and Fulfillment: without special title
Author:
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Category : Middle-aged women
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This compendium presents the findings of 29 scholars on public policy issues affecting midlife women.
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Category : Middle-aged women
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This compendium presents the findings of 29 scholars on public policy issues affecting midlife women.
We Make Change
Author: Kristin Layng Szakos
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826515551
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Community organizers work at their jobs because they are passionate, because they believe that change is possible, and because they enjoy working with people. Although it's not an occupation that leads to great wealth, community organizers can make a living at it. They get salaries, pensions and health insurance. They raise families. They do well by doing good. This book explores the world of community organizing through the voices of real people working in the field, in small towns and city neighborhoods--women and men of different races and economic backgrounds, ranging in age from those in their twenties to those in their sixties. Fourteen in-depth profiles tell the life stories of a cross-section of the diverse people who choose the life of an organizer. Other chapters, focused on issues of organizing, are tapestries of experience woven from the 81 interviews the authors conducted.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826515551
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Community organizers work at their jobs because they are passionate, because they believe that change is possible, and because they enjoy working with people. Although it's not an occupation that leads to great wealth, community organizers can make a living at it. They get salaries, pensions and health insurance. They raise families. They do well by doing good. This book explores the world of community organizing through the voices of real people working in the field, in small towns and city neighborhoods--women and men of different races and economic backgrounds, ranging in age from those in their twenties to those in their sixties. Fourteen in-depth profiles tell the life stories of a cross-section of the diverse people who choose the life of an organizer. Other chapters, focused on issues of organizing, are tapestries of experience woven from the 81 interviews the authors conducted.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Un-American Activities
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher:
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Category : Internal security
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Internal security
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Violations of State Department Regulations and Pro-Castro Propaganda Activities in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher:
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Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
Book Description