This dissertation demonstrates how a transnational conception of poor people as 'backwards' and culturally distinct emerged from the nexus of intellectuals, activists, and administrators who …
A salient theme in D. Gale Johnson’s work is the importance of agricultural development for general prosperity and for economic diversification (e.g., Johnson 2000). Johnson …
The speaker tells their life story through the lens of incarceration. They describe their parents' experiences in jail for crimes of poverty, their mother's time …
The challenge of being successful from local to national levels. Huge effect of 9/11 on immigrant communities. Ana Maria immigrated from Colombia at the age …
Broad background in movement activism (civil rights, anti-war, black nationalism) led to openness to building permanent organizations run by their members. Realistic view of the …
Personal experience applying for public aid led her to work in the welfare rights movement. Started working for United Farm Workers; welfare rights movement; VISTA …
Being open to the strengths of movement, community-based, single-issue, electoral, and identity-based organizing. Change depends on historical openings, elected leadership that is open, understanding the …
Big picture conversation about the potential for community organizing to make large scale change and what stands in the way of that; community organizing still …
This article tries to outline the major differences between practices of charity within Europe, either comparing Catholics to Protestants, or different Catholic areas. The point …
Community organizing in Rhode Island and West Virginia. Some of the projects including working on clothing grants for welfare recipients and coal mining safety. He …
This paper examines whether the Solow growth model is consistent with the international variation in the standard of living. It shows that an augmented Solow …