An edition of The people shall rule : ACORN, community organizing, and the struggle for economic justice (2009)

The people shall rule

ACORN, community organizing, and the struggle for economic justice

by

Cover of: The people shall rule by Fisher, Robert
Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
Notes
Notes

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
June 9, 2025 | History
Edit
An edition of The people shall rule : ACORN, community organizing, and the struggle for economic justice (2009)

The people shall rule

ACORN, community organizing, and the struggle for economic justice

by

"With the election of a community organizer as president of the United States, the time is right to evaluate the current state of community organizing and the effectiveness of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Since 2002, ACORN has been dramatically expanding and raising its national profile; it has also been weathering controversy over its voter registration campaigns and an internal financial scandal.

The twelve chapters in this volume present the perspectives of insiders like founder Wade Rathke and leading outside practitioners and academics. The result is a thorough detailing of ACORN's founding and its changing strategies, including vivid accounts and analyses of its campaigns on the living wage, voter turnout, predatory lending, redlining, school reform, and community redevelopment, as well as a critical perspective on ACORN's place in the community organizing landscape."--pub. desc.

Publish Date
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Language
English
Pages
300

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Subjects

ACORN (Organization), Community organization, Community development, Urban, Urban Community development, Community development, united states
Edition Availability
Cover of: The people shall rule
The people shall rule: ACORN, community organizing, and the struggle for economic justice
2009, Vanderbilt University Press
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details

Table of Contents

Community organizing, ACORN and progressive politics in America / Peter Dreier
Understanding ACORN : sweat and social change / Wade Rathke
Education as a field for community organizing : a comparative perspective / Elaine Simon and Eva Gold
From redlining to reinvestment : economic justice advocacy, ACORN, and the emergence of a community reinvestment infrastructure / Gregory Squires and Jan Chadwick
Community organizing theory and practice : conservative trends, oppositional alternatives / James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher and Eric Shragge
ACORN and the living wage movement / Stephanie Luce
The battle of Brooklyn : ACORN's modus operandi / John Atlas
Community resistance to school privatization : the case of New York City / Janelle Scott and Norm Fruchter
'Don't be a blockhead' : ACORN, protest tactics, and refund anticipation loans / Robert Fisher, Fred Brooks and Daniel Russell
ACORN experiments in minority voter mobilization / Donald Green and Melissa R. Michelson
Does ACORN's work contribute to movement building? / Gary Delgado
What direction community organizing? / Robert Fisher.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Nashville, Tenn

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
361.80973
Library of Congress
HN65 .P395 2009, HN65.P395 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
300

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL22541720M
ISBN 13
9780826516565, 9780826516572
LCCN
2008039357
OCLC/WorldCat
254526547
LibraryThing
9143725
Goodreads
7206553

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL18175394W

Source records

Community Reviews (0)

No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

Loading indicator
Loading carousel
Loading indicator
Loading carousel

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
June 9, 2025 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
March 28, 2025 Edited by ImportBot Redacting ocaids
February 11, 2023 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
December 31, 2022 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
November 16, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from Library of Congress MARC record