Foreword: Studs Terkel
Introduction: The Industrial Areas Foundation: Social Knowledge,
Power, and Politicians
1. The World As It Is and the World As It Should Be
2. The Relational Meeting
3. Broad-Baed Organizing: An Intentional Response to the Human
Condition
4. Relationships: Private and the Public
5. The Practice of the Public Life: Research, Action, and
Evaluation
6. Reflections of an Organizer
7. Broad-Based Organizing for the Twenty-First Century: United
Power for Action and Justice
8. Thoughts on Twenty-First Century Challenges
Appendix
Notes
Edward T. Chambers is the executive director of the Industrial Areas Foundation.
"Here is a how-to-book in the best sense: a primer in how to beat
the dragons. It has been designed for community organizers: to
know, to feel, and mostly to think creatively how, not so much to
lead, as to incite the pow"erless to find the power and speak for
themselves....Ed Chambers is something of a secular priest, with
the community as his parish, teaching that the least of us have the
right to lead decent lives. I should point out that his first real
teacher was Dorothy Day." -Studs Terkel
"I found it refreshingly down-to-earth, usable by people (I'm one)
who don't share all the ideological assumptions of the author, as
well as by those who are convinced."" -Christianity Today"
'Overall the book was a good read and I recommend it.' Karen Gray,
Journal of Community Practice, Vol 13, No. 4, 2005
"Roots for Radicals is the sort of book you want desperately to
like. And...it's not difficult." --Charles Bertsch, Tikkun, Nov/Dec
2004
*Blurb from reviewer*
"This resource for organizers presents a distillation of the
Industrial Areas Foundation philosophy and its approach to
community organizing.." --Reference & Research Book News, February
2004
*Blurb from reviewer*
"Edward T. Chambers might know more about building democratic
institutions than any man alive." —San Francisco Chronicle
*San Francisco Chronicle*
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