New Article: Community Organizing in Britain

Posted by on June 29, 2009

The sociology journal, City & Community, has just published an article from my research on the Citizens Organising Foundation in Britain, a sister network to the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). The British network launched the UK’s first living wage campaign and won economic guarantees from the Olympics Committee for funds to improve the lives of East Londoners in the areas around the 2012 Olympics, among other campaigns. If you are interested in learning about the foundation’s efforts to apply the IAF’s organizing principles in a very different social, religious and political context, you may find the article interesting. You can access it via electronic subscriptions from libraries, and the reference is:

Mark R. Warren. “Community Organizing in Britain: The Political Engagement of Faith-based Social Capital,” City & Community 8 (2) (June, 2009): 99-127.

Alternatively, my staff assistant, Melita Garrett, will be happy to send you a pdf of the article if it is for your own personal use. You can email her at: [email protected]