{"product_id":"occupation-organizer-9781642599145","title":"Occupation: Organizer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA trenchant history of community organizing and a must-read for the next generation of organizers seeking to learn from the successes, failures, and contradictions of the past.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe community organizing tradition is long overdue for reexamination. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOccupation: Organizer, scholar and activist Clément Petitjean traces that history \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efrom its roots in the Progressive movement to its expansion and diverging paths \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eduring the social movements of the 1960s and ’70s, when Saul Alinsky became the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emost popular “professional radical” in the US while groups like Student Nonviolent \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCoordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Black Panthers \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erecast organizers as horizontal, antihierarchical spadeworkers—those who do the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ework as part of the community, rather than standing apart from it.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nBut in the years since, the professionalization of organizing work has only \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eincreased, despite the critiques. Only by grappling with its limitations and pitfalls, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePetitjean insists, can we learn to build durable, effective organizations for change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clément Petitjean","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42963894206582,"sku":"9781642599145","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_cafc6d1f-b0d2-4d36-90c0-e1b4f3203403.jpg?v=1771709360","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/occupation-organizer-9781642599145","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}