Contents

pp vii-viii

Series editors’ preface

pp ix-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

Notes on contributors

pp xi-xviii

PART 1 - Contested concepts of class, past and present

pp 1-2

One - Class, inequality and community development: editorial introduction

pp 3-22

Two - Competing concepts of class: implications and applications for community development

pp 23-38

Three - Community development in the UK: whatever happened to class? A historical analysis

pp 39-56

PART 2 - Class, inequality and community development in context

pp 57-58

Four - Working-class communities and ecology: reframing environmental justice around the Ilva steel plant in Taranto (Apulia, Italy)

pp 59-76

Five - Race, class and green jobs in low-income communities in the US: challenges for community development

pp 77-92

Six - Community development practice in India: Interrogating caste and common sense

pp 93-106

Seven - The impact of gender, race and class on women’s political participation in post-apartheid South Africa: challenges for community development

pp 107-120

Eight - What happens when community organisers move into government? Recent experience in Bolivia

pp 121-136

Nine - Community development: (un)fulfilled hopes for social equality in Poland

pp 137-152

Ten - Rural–urban alliances for community development through land reform from below

pp 153-168

PART 3 - Reconnecting class and inequality through community development

pp 169-170

Eleven - Reconciling participation and power in international development: a case study

pp 171-188

Twelve - Transformative education and community development: sharing learning to challenge inequality

pp 189-204

Thirteen - Community development and class in the context of an East Asian productivist welfare regime

pp 205-218

Fourteen - Community organising for social change: the scope for class politics

pp 219-234

Concluding chapter: Community unionism: looking backwards, looking forwards

pp 235-250

Index

pp 251-260