Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction to Community Organizing

Schutz, Aaron/ Sandy, Marie Gina

ISBN 10: 0230105378 / ISBN 13: 9780230105379

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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256 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction to Community Organizing
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230105378
• ISBN 13: 9780230105379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.5 kilograms

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Synopsis

Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public action, releasing hidden capacities for leadership and strategy. In Collective Action for Social Change , Aaron Schutz and Marie G. Sandy draw on their extensive experience participating in community organizing activities and teaching courses on the subject to empower novices to think like an organizers.

About the Author

AARON SCHUTZAssociate Professorand Chair of theDepartment of Education Policyand Communication Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
MARIE G. SANDYformer Deputy Director of Wider Opportunities for Women in Washington DC, USA, where among other efforts, she worked with organizing groups around the nation in fights over welfare reform.