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Social Change
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- The Kid's Guide to Service Projects : Over 500 Service Ideas for Young People Who Want to Make a Difference
- by Barbara A. Lewis / Paperback/ Published 1995
Do the kids in your home or organization want to make a difference? This book includes projects that range in size and focus area. Help engage your own children or young volunteers in a personal or community-based service project with this book of great ideas and resources.
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- Cathedral Within : Transforming Your Life By Giving Something Back
- by William H. Shore / Hardcover/ Published June, 1999
Shore profiles the people across the U.S. who are leveraging the market economy to improve community life and the future for children.
Free the Children : A Young Man's Personal Crusade Against Child Labor
- by Craig Kielburger with Kevin Major / Hardcover/ Published 1999
Well known in Canada and around the world as the teenage children's rights advocate, Keilburger chronicles the development of his organization Free the Children International, from its inception at the kitchen table through his travels in India and Southeast Asia.
Affecting Change : Social Workers in the Political Arena- by Karen S. Haynes, James S. Mickelson/ Paperback / Published 1996
Chapter headings include: The Emergence of a Social Work Polity, The Debate, Social Work Values Versus Politics, Policy Models for Political Advocacy, The Practitioner's Influence on Policy, Influence Through Lobbying, Influence Through Organizing Others, Monitoring the Bureaucracy, Political Action Committees, The Campaign, Social Workers as Politicians, Some Final Words on Being an Advocate.
Class Warfare in the Information Age- by Michael Perelman/ Hardcover / Published 1998
Perelman shows how class conflict remains a contemporary issue. He challenges the notion that, with the help of modern computer and telecommunication technologies, we can look forward to life in a well-educated society in which anybody can enjoy a more than comfortable existence. In the future, Perelman argues, it will still be a class-based privilege to access and afford information, and the rights of individuals will disintegrate as the power of the corporate sector grows.
Organizing for Social Change : A Manual for Activists in the 1990's- Steve Max, Kimberly A. Bobo, Jacquelyn A. Kendall/ Paperback / Published 1996
Here's a comprehensive manual for grassroots organizers working for social, political, environmental, and economic change at the local, state, and national level. Using this manual, organizers will learn a systematic approach to the techniques of organizing, building and using power, and of creating lasting institutions that are both self-defense organizations and avenues for citizen participation in public life.
Age and Structural Lag : Society's Failure to Provide Meaningful Opportunities in Work, Family, and Leisure- Matilda White Riley, Anne Foner (Editor), Robert Louis Kahn/ Hardcover / Published 1994
Reveals the mismatch between the availability of the strengths and capabilities of the rapidly increasing aging population and the shortage of productive and meaningful opportunities for these people to accomplish their potential. Examines the complex problems in bringing opportunity structures into greater congruence with what technology and medical advances have made feasible within an extended active life span and offers possible solutions.
The Triumphs of Joseph : How Today's Community Healers Are Reviving Our Streets and Neighborhoods- Robert L. Woodson/ Hardcover / Published 1998
This is a tribute to neighborhood healers of the inner city who exemplify the imagination, the courage, and the self-help ethic necessary to renew our communities. Robert L. Woodson, Sr., sees the biblical Joseph as a prototype of the men and women who battle daily to change lives in our poorest neighborhoods, while often being ignored or disparaged by people who have a vested interest in the existence of poverty and racial tensions. While recognizing the effects of racism and discrimination, Woodson insists that drug abuse, theft, and gang activity are merely the localized evidence of a moral disintegration that is rampant at all levels of society. he believes that solutions exist in the vision and deeds of the street-level Josephs whose efforts and voices we must heed. Bound to be controversial, this is nonetheless a must-read for those working to change inner-city neighbourhoods.
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