How the rural poor got power
Subtitle: narrative of a grass-roots organizer
By: Paul David Wellstone.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Organization for a Better Rice County; Political participation -- Minnesota -- Rice Co; Rural poor -- Minnesota -- Rice Co; Rice County (Minn.) -- Politics and government
Description: Study of rural poverty and politics. The focus is on the development of a poor people's organization; it is the narrative study of an organizing effort in a rural, small-town community in southeastern Minnesota. [Introduction].

"[Story] of gradual, undramatic, localist transformation--arguably the essence of a democratic process, in contrast to a totalitarian one." [Robert Coles--Preface].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.