[Book Review] Pragmatics of community organization
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Abstract
Remember Saul Alinsky's classic guide to community
rebel-rousing, Rules for Radicals? Bill Lee's Pragmatics of Community Organization is an
updated-and much more Canadian-approach to the same issue: how to work with
grassroots communities to achieve empowerment and social justice. The book is a primer
for social work students as well as for those who are just beginning to do community
development work. It is also a valuabk tool for community-based planners and for other,
more experienced community practitioners.
Barbara Loevinger Rahder reviews Pragmatics of community organization (3rd ed.) by Bill Lee (Mississauga: CommonAct Press, 1999).