“A very interesting work…a book of recipes.” --La Presse, Montréal   

“A thoroughly readable, useful work…required reading for community activists.” --Quill & Quire 

Henri Lamoureux is a writer.  Robert Mayer and Jean Panet-Raymond teach at the School of Social Work, Université de Montréal.

Table of Contents

Preface by Glenn Drover
Translators’ Preface
Foreword to the English Language Edition
Introduction

PART I    Community Organizing: People Places, Issues

1.      A Brief History
2.      People, Communities, Interest Groups, and Organizations Involved in Community Action

PART II    Getting to Know the Community

3.      Research
4.      Understanding the Community

PART III    Community Organizing: Mobilization and Struggle

5.      Mobilization: Organizing a Group
6.      Organizing a Struggle

PART IV     How Groups Function

7.      Internal Democracy
8.      Group Facilitation; Structures
9. Funding Groups, Dissolution

Conclusion
Names of Organizations
Bibliography