Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction to Community Organizing

Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public action, releasing hidden capacities for leadership and strategy. In Collective Action for Social Change, Aaron Schutz and Marie G. Sandy draw on their extensive experience participating in community organizing activities and teaching courses on the subject to empower novices to think like an organizers.

Author: A. Schutz, M. Sandy
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/23/2011
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230105379

About the Author
AARON SCHUTZAssociate Professorand Chair of theDepartment of Education Policyand Communication Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
MARIE G. SANDYformer Deputy Director of Wider Opportunities for Women in Washington DC, USA, where among other efforts, she worked with organizing groups around the nation in fights over welfare reform.