Title: Class, inequality and community development /
Authors: Shaw, Mae.; Mayo, Marjorie.
Date: 2016
Publisher: Policy Press,
Physical description: xvii, 260 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: H
Contents: Machine generated contents note: Contested concepts of class, past and present -- Class, inequality and community development: editorial introduction / Marjorie Mayo -- Competing concepts of class: implications and applications for community development / Frances Fox Piven -- Community development in the UK: whatever happened to class? A historical analysis / Gary Craig -- Class, inequality and community development in context -- Working-class communities and ecology: reframing environmental justice around the Ilva steel plant in Taranto (Apulia, Italy) / Emanuele Leonardi -- Race, class and green jobs in low-income communities in the US: challenges for community development / Sekou Franklin -- Community development practice in India: Interrogating caste and common sense / Manish K. Jha -- The Impact of Gender, Race and Class on Women's Political Participation in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Challenges for Community Development / Sithembiso Myeni -- What happens when community organisers move into government? Recent experience in Bolivia / Mike Geddes -- Community development: (un)fulfilled hopes for social equality in Poland / Monika Noworolnik-Mastalska -- Rural -- urban alliances for community development through land reform from below / Frederico Daia Firmiano -- Reconnecting class and inequality through community development -- Reconciling participation and power in international development: a case study / Kate Newman -- Transformative education and community development: sharing learning to challenge inequality / Peter Taylor -- Community development and class in the context of an East Asian productivist welfare regime / Kwok-Kin Fung -- Community organising for social change: the scope for class politics / Mandy Wilson -- Concluding chapter: Community unionism: looking backwards, looking forwards / Mat Danaher.
Subject headings (LCSH): Community development--Political aspects.; Community development.; Equality.; Social classes