Beschreibung:
Jacqueline Mondros is professor and dean emeritus of Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare and a past president of the National Association of Deans and Directors of Social Work. With more than twenty-five publications in community organizing, including coauthoring the first edition of Organizing for Power and Empowerment (Columbia, 1994), she has organized in Philadelphia, New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.Joan Minieri is a longtime leader in the field of social action and has organized in New York and nationally. She is the coauthor of Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community (2007).
This second edition draws on extensive research to portray how social-action organizations have evolved over the past twenty-five years, building power in the struggle for social and economic justice. It explores how organizers increasingly target corporate influence and fight pervasive intersectional injustice.
Preface1. The Evolution of Social Action Organizing2. Organizing Against Corporate Power3. Intersectional Injustice4. Women and Gender Frames5. The Organization as a Sustained Vehicle for Change and as a Political Home6. Righteous Anger: Building the Base and Developing Leadership for Power7. Issues: The Rubik's Cube of Organizing8. Campaign Strategy: Fundamentals and Innovation9. Using Information and Communication Technologies10. Conclusions: The Next Evolution of OrganizingPostscript: Reckoning and ResolveAppendix: Study MethodsAcknowledgmentsAdditional ResourcesBibliographyIndex