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Today's community organizers and social planners have a tendency to ignore their antecedents and to "reinvent the wheel." "What is found in textbooks today had its origins in the day-to-day, trial-and-error experiences of community organizers in the 1920s and 1930s," state Michael J. Austin and Neil Betten in their Introduction to this pioneering study of community organization. The historical analysis of the intellectual and practical roots of community organizing in the United States begins with urban political organizing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the organizing of immigrant communities by the International Institutes beginning in 1910, and the Cincinnati Unit Experiment from 1917 to 1919. The authors and their collaborators focus on historical material that has received relatively little attention within the profession. This includes the "organizing manuals" of Steiner, McClenahan, Hart, Pettit, and Lindeman; the emergence, in the 1920s, of physical planning as practiced by city planners and social survey research as practiced by social planners; and the social action approach to community organizing with special reference to organizing the working cl

Author

Neil Betten and Michael J. Austin with contributions by Robert Fisher ... [et al.]

Publisher

Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780877226628

Subjects

Social Science, History, Social_sciences