Occupation: Organizer 9781642599411

A trenchant history of community organizing and a must-read for the next generation of organizers seeking to learn from 

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Occupation: Organizer
 9781642599411

Table of contents :
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Introduction: The Community Organizing Mystique
1. Unpacking Professionalization
2. Origins: Saul Alinsky and the Chicago Reform Tradition
3. Managing the Democratic Crisis in the Age of the Cold War
4. The Professional Radical
5. Spadework: The Radical Community Organizing Tradition of the 1960s
6. Professionalization from Within: Building a Skilled Cadre of Practitioners
7. “You Run for President?”: Fitting into the Division of Political Labor
Conclusion
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
INDEX

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