Activism and social change
Subtitle: lessons for community organizing
By: Eric Shragge
Edition: 2nd edition.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781442607705; 9781442606272
Subjects: Organisation communautaire; Social action; Community organization; Action sociale
Description: "Drawing on over thirty years of experience in community development practice, Eric Shragge offers a unique historical perspective on activism, linking various forms of local organizing to the broader goal of fundamental social change.

This new edition places contemporary community organizing in a post-9/11 context and includes a discussion of national and international organizing efforts - in the Middle East, in the Occupy movement, in European resistance to austerity measures, and in recent student protests in Quebec. A new chapter-length case study covering Shragge's long-term involvement with the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal offers one of the few English-language discussions of community organizing in Quebec. Activism and Social Change is an excellent core or supplementary text in courses on social movements, community organizing, or community development."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: 1. Theoretical Perspectives and Models of Community Work; title: 2. Getting from There to Here: Historical Development of Community Work; title: 3. The Legacy and Tradition of Social Action; title: 4. Social Action Continues: Fighting Back in a Neo-liberal Age; title: 5. Community as Containment or New Possibilities?; title: 6. Conclusion: Fighting the Good Fight; title: The Immigrant Workers Centre.