Activism and Social Change: Lessons for Community Organizing, Second Edition

By Eric Shragge

Book Overview

Drawing on over thirty years of experience in community development practice, Eric Shragge offers a unique historical perspective on activism, linking various forms of local organizing to the broader goal of fundamental social change.

This new edition places contemporary community organizing in a post-9/11 context and includes a discussion of national and international organizing efforts--in the Middle East, in the Occupy movement, in European resistance to austerity measures, and in recent student protests in Quebec. A new chapter-length case study covering Shragge's long-term involvement with the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal offers one of the few English-language discussions of community organizing in Quebec. Activism and Social Change is an excellent core or supplementary text in courses on social movements, community organizing, or community development.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442606274
• ISBN13: 9781442606272
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"