{"product_id":"occupation-organizer","title":"Occupation: Organizer","description":"\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\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe community organizing tradition is long overdue for reexamination. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eOccupation: Organizer\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57484101812597,"sku":"9781642599145","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781642599145.jpg?v=1786266134","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/occupation-organizer","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}