Community Organizing and Development

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.