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Occupation: organizer : a critical history of community organizing in america

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2023Description: 311 pagesages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781642599145
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HN90.C6P48
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.
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Includes bibliographical references ( pages 269-301) and index.

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.

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