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Preface | |
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Progressive Organizing | |
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Organizing and Development for Progressive Social Change | |
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Progressive Organizing | |
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Accomplishing Social Change Through Organizing and Development Efforts | |
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Why People Must Organize | |
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Shared Characteristics of a Variety of Approaches to Progressive Organizing | |
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Conclusions | |
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A World of Action: A World of Hope | |
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An Activist's Tour of the World of Social Change: Activities and Accomplishments | |
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Grasping What Has Been Seen: Building toward an Infrastructure for Social Change | |
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An Infrastructure for Collective Action and Social Change | |
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Conclusion | |
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Models for Implementing Progressive Social Change: Commonalities, Differences, and Reconciliations | |
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Grouping Social Change Actions by Goals and Purposes | |
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Families of Empowerment Tactics | |
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Categorizing the Variety of Social Change Models | |
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Tensions between Advocates of Separate Organizing Models | |
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Conclusions | |
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The Three Pillars of Progressive Organizing | |
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Empowering Individuals | |
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The Battle for Personal Empowerment | |
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Combating Personal Disempowerment | |
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Conclusion | |
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Building Community to Create Capacity for Change | |
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The Variety of Community Bonds | |
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Building and Strengthening Communities: The Path from Social Bonds to Social Action | |
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Conclusion: Community Building for Collective Empowerment | |
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Empowering through Building Progressive Organizations | |
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How Progressive Organizations Structurally Compare with Their Mainstream Cousins | |
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How Social Change Organizations Empower and Build Capacity | |
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Tensions That Occur in Building Empowered Organizations | |
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Conclusion | |
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Problems, Programs, and Precedents | |
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Social Problems and Public Policy | |
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Understanding Social Problems as Contested Framings | |
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Social Problems: Structural or Personal? | |
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Problems and Agency | |
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Social Problems, Public Policies, and Organizing | |
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Clusters of Problems | |
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Conclusions and Implications for Organizing Work | |
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Intersecting Histories: Community Organizing, Issue Mobilization, and Social Movements | |
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A Brief Overview of the History of Social Activism and the Neighborhood Movement | |
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Lessons from the History of Organizing for Social Change | |
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Conclusions | |
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Learning about Personal, Community, and Social Needs through Action Research | |
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Social Implications of Action Research | |
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Undertaking Social Action Research | |
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The Overall Flow of a Research Project | |
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Data-Gathering Techniques | |
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Data Analysis and Presentation | |
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Conclusion | |
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Building Capacity to Initiate Collective Action | |
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Activists, Organizers, and Social Change Professionals | |
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A Variety of Social Change Professionals | |
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Why and How Do a Variety of People Become Activists and Organizers? | |
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The Tasks of Organizers and Social Change Professionals | |
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Learning to Be a Social Change Professional | |
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Social Change Work as a Career | |
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Conclusion: Social Change Work as Both a Calling and a Profession | |
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Creating Capacity through Effective Organizational Administration | |
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Defining the Mission | |
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Structuring the Organization | |
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Personnel | |
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Personnel Management | |
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Fund-Raising | |
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Professional Fiscal Practices | |
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Organizational Planning | |
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Conclusion | |
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Expanding Capacity through Empowering, Participatory Meetings | |
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Encouraging Involvement in Meetings by Creating a Flavor of Success | |
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Meetings with Large-Scale Involvement | |
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Instructional Meetings and Sessions | |
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Focused Decision-Making Meetings | |
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Interorganizational Committee Meetings | |
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Conclusion | |
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Building Capacity by Working with the Support Sector | |
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A Wide Array of Support Organizations and Support Networks | |
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Capacity Building through Working with Support Organizations | |
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Conclusion | |
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Compelling Change through Social Mobilization | |
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An Overview to Social Mobilization Campaigns | |
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Power and Social Mobilization Campaigns | |
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Understanding the Environment in Which Social Mobilization Campaigns Occur | |
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Keeping Up Morale over the Long Run | |
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Reflect upon Progressive Values during Social Mobilization Campaigns | |
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Conclusions: Strategic Planning and Action Campaigns | |
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Mobilizing Individuals and Groups | |
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Understanding Mobilization | |
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Mobilization Tactics and Processes | |
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Mobilization in a Multicultural Society | |
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Conclusion | |
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Influencing the Public Sector: Civic and Administrative Engagement | |
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Understanding Governmental Structures and Policy Making | |
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Tactics for Civil and Regulatory Engagement | |
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Constraints on Political Participation | |
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Conclusion | |
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Compelling Change through Power Tactics | |
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Shared Characteristics of Power and Confrontational Approaches to Social Change | |
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Applying Power Tactics | |
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Conclusions and Concerns about Confrontational Actions | |
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Tools for Strengthening Social Mobilization Campaigns: Lawyers and Litigation, Publicity and the Mass Media, Negotiations | |
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Lawyers and Litigation | |
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Obtaining Publicity | |
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Negotiations | |
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Conclusion | |
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Social Action: Magnifying Power through Coalitions | |
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The Variety of Coalitions | |
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Advantages of Being within a Coalition | |
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Establishing and Maintaining Coalitions | |
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Campaigns Orchestrated by Support Coalition Organizations | |
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Conclusion | |
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Implementing Change through the Community Economic Development and Social Production Approach | |
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An Introduction to the Community Economic and Social Production Model | |
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Guiding Principles for Community Economic and Social Production Work | |
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Organizational Forms and Community Economic and Social Production Work | |
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Illustrations of Community Economic and Social Production Work | |
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Advocates for Progressive Programs that Expand Economic and Social Capacity | |
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Concerns Raised by Community Economic and Social Production Work | |
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Conclusion and Summary | |
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Skills for Accomplishing Economic and Social Production Work | |
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Planning | |
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Financing Projects and Services | |
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Project Implementation: Development | |
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Project Implementation: Management and Administration | |
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Evaluation and Monitoring of Economic and Social Production Work | |
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Conclusion | |
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Epilogue: Working toward a Progressive Society | |
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Reflection and Organizing | |
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Tensions and Reconciliations | |
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Where Do We Go from Here? | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |