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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.
List of contents
Preface
1. The Evolution of Social Action Organizing
2. Organizing Against Corporate Power
3. Intersectional Injustice
4. Women and Gender Frames
5. The Organization as a Sustained Vehicle for Change and as a Political Home
6. Righteous Anger: Building the Base and Developing Leadership for Power
7. Issues: The Rubik’s Cube of Organizing
8. Campaign Strategy: Fundamentals and Innovation
9. Using Information and Communication Technologies
10. Conclusions: The Next Evolution of Organizing
Postscript: Reckoning and Resolve
Appendix: Study Methods
Acknowledgments
Additional Resources
Bibliography
Index
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
