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Community Development Journal 2006 41(3):381-383; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsl020
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This text is actually two, both from two of the seminal commentators on the American War on Poverty in the 1970s, who had a major impact on thinking in other countries, particularly industrialized countries facing the same difficulties of growing poverty amongst plenty. The issue of the role of the state is central to these books, as it attempts to manage increasing dissent, a dissent which was increasingly also taking a racialized form in the inner cities of the USA.

This is the sixth contribution in our new occasional series. In each contribution, the author reflects on a ‘classic text’ in the field of community development, which they feel has influenced them, or the practice of community development more widely. The text should have . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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