Occupation : organizer : a critical history of community organizing in America /
A trenchant history of community organizing and a must-read for the next generation of organizers seeking to learn from the successes, failures and contradictions of the past. The community organizing tradition is long overdue for reexamination. In Occupation: Organizer, scholar and activist Clément...
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Chicago :
Haymarket Books,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The community organizing mystique
- Unpacking professionalization
- Origins: Saul Alinsky and the Chicago reform tradition
- Managing the democratic crisis in the age of the Cold War
- The professional radical
- Spadework: The radical community organizing tradition of the 1960s
- Professionalization from within: Building a skilled cadre of practitioners
- ‘You run for president?’: Fitting into the division of political labor
- Conclusion.