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How people get power
- Title
- How people get power / Si Kahn ; with a foreword by Paul David Wellstone and an introduction by Chandra Talpade Mohanty.
- Author
- Kahn, Si.
- Publication
- Washington, DC : National Association of Social Workers, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HN49.C6 K34 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxii, 146 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- A guide to community organizing, for empowering people to be their own leaders and to create genuine democratic politics and progressive change in our country.
- Subject
- Note
- "An NASW Press/Grassroots Leadership Book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-136) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / by U.S. Senator Paul David Wellstone -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the revised edition -- Introduction : Survival is not an academic skill / by Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- [ch.] 1. Entering the community -- [ch.] 2. Sizing up the community -- [ch.] 3. Making contacts -- [ch.] 4. Bringing people together -- [ch.] 5. Developing leadership -- [ch.] 6. Working with organizations -- [ch.] 7. Setting priorities -- [ch.] 8. Power tactics -- [ch.] 9. Building political power -- [ch.] 10. Self-help strategies -- [ch.] 11. Leaving the community -- Afterword : I have seen freedom -- Epilogue : The goals of organizing -- Suggested reading -- Index -- About the author -- About Grassroots Leadership -- Grassroots Leadership/NASW press tour.
- ISBN
- 0871012367
- 9780871012364
- LCCN
- 94010537
- OCLC
- ocm30318713
- 30318713
- SCSB-8967110
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