Author : Herbert J. Rubin
Release : 2008
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Community Organizing and Development by : Herbert J. Rubin
Download or read book Community Organizing and Development written by Herbert J. Rubin. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.