Preface -- Introduction -- The Struggle for Recognition -- Charles Liverseed -- Therese Van Zuilen -- Welfare Rights -- Elgie Cloutier Butterfield -- Francis Milligan -- Beyond Welfare Rights -- New Community Leaders -- Phyllis Hanson -- Patti Fritz -- Isabelle Goodwin -- Rusty Hanson -- Franie Dwyer -- Organizational Problems -- Bread and Roses -- Postscript
Summary
"[Story] of gradual, undramatic, localist transformation--arguably the essence of a democratic process, in contrast to a totalitarian one." [Robert Coles--Preface]
Study of rural poverty and politics. The focus is on the development of a poor people's organization; it is the narrative study of an organizing effort in a rural, small-town community in southeastern Minnesota. [Introduction]
