Activism and Social Change: Lessons for Community and Local Organizing

by Eric Shragge

Book Overview

Drawing on over 30 years of experience in community development practice, Shragge offers students and professionals an historical look at community organizing and local activism from its development in 1960 to the contemporary practices of today's young activists, adding his personal reflections along the way. In the process, he makes links between a variety of forms of local organizing and the broader goal of fundamental social change. The book begins...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155111562X
• ISBN13: 9781551115627
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.0"