Title: How the rural poor got power
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].
Subjects: Organization for a Better Rice County, Political participation, Politics and government, Rural poor
Places: Minnesota, Rice Co, Rice County (Minn.)