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Product Identifiers

PublisherABC-Clio, LLC

ISBN-100275969983

ISBN-139780275969981

eBay Product ID (ePID)43116657

Product Key Features

Number of Pages392 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRoots to Power : a Manual for Grassroots Organizing, 2nd Edition

SubjectSociology / General

Publication Year2004

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science

AuthorLee Staples

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight22.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2004-017676

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"This handbook is a primer on grassroots community organizing (GCO) and is a practical handbook for employed community organizers, executive directors of human service and grassroots organizations, lay volunteers, community activists and others who want to make a difference for those who don't have power....Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing is a comprehensive overview of this field of practice. In fact, several times since I received my MSW from the University of Michigan in 1968, I have dreamed about writing such a book - and never did. I'm glad that Lee Staples did, and he has packed it full of information, theories, experience and practical steps to develop tactics and strategies for local groups to take collective action in "response to problems, hopes, concerns, visions, and dreams for a better future that arise from everyday situations." I highly recommend that it be read but, more importantly, practiced." Social Work with Groups, "This handbook is a primer on grassroots community organizing (GCO) and is a practical handbook for employed community organizers, executive directors of human service and grassroots organizations, lay volunteers, community activists and others who want to make a difference for those who don't have power....Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing is a comprehensive overview of this field of practice. In fact, several times since I received my MSW from the University of Michigan in 1968, I have dreamed about writing such a book - and never did. I'm glad that Lee Staples did, and he has packed it full of information, theories, experience and practical steps to develop tactics and strategies for local groups to take collective action in "response to problems, hopes, concerns, visions, and dreams for a better future that arise from everyday situations." I highly recommend that it be read but, more importantly, practiced."- Social Work with Groups

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal306.0973

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisThis how-to manual presents strategies, tactics, methods, and techniques that community members can use to take collective action in the pursuit of hopes, visions, and dreams for a better future., When ordinary people band together to gain more control over their life conditions, the first order of business is to organize in pursuit of collective action. This how-to manual presents strategies, tactics, methods, and techniques that community members can use to set their own goals, select issues, campaign for these issues, recruit members, develop leaders, hold effective meetings, conduct research, lobby politicians and legislators, and get the word out to the media. The author brings more than three decades of experience to the task of explaining root principles for developing and exercising collective power; he moves effortlessly from such broad discussions into providing specific tips for effective organizing methods and techniques. Armed with the information in this book, any community can bring about social change through collective action.

LC Classification NumberHN65.S715 2004