Raff Carmen currently coordinates the Masters and post-graduate research programmes in Adult Education, Adult Literacy and Rural Social/Community Development at the University of Manchester.

• Preface - Raff Carmen & Miguel SobradoPart I: Context and History1. Setting the Scene: 'Those who don't eat and those who don't sleep' - Raff Carmen and Miguel Sobrado2. Clodomir Santos de Morais and the Origins of his Largescale Capacitation Theory and Method - Miguel SobradoPart II: Theoretical Perspectives3. The Largescale Capacitation Method and Social Participation: Theoretical Perspectives - Clodomir Santos de Morais4. From Paulo Freire to Clodomir Santos de Morais: From Critical to Organizational Consciousness - Jacinta Castello Branco CorreiaPart III: The Organization Workshop in Practice5. From Navvies to Entrepreneurs: The Organization Workshop in Costa Rica - Miguel Sobrado6. Sacked Agricultural Workers Take on the Multinationals in Honduras - Benjamin Erazo7. The Mexican Experience with Organization Workshops - Juan Jose Rojas Herrera8. The Organization Workshop in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru - Miguel Sobrado9. Three Decades of Work with OWs in Latin America: An Institutional Perspective - Leopoldo Sandoval10. 'Doing Enterprises' in war-time and post-war Mozambique - Isabel and Ivan de Labra11. In Angola, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe - Paulo Roberto da Silva12. Hard Learning in Zimbabwe and in post civil-war Mozambique - Isabel and Ivan Labra13. Organization Development (OD) and Morais's Organization Workshop (OW) - South Africa and Botswana - Gavin Andersson14. The Potential of the the OW in former Soviet Bloc Countries and Economies in Crisis - Miguel Sobrado15. In Post-Salazar Portugal - Isabel and Ivan Labra16. The Crisis of Work in Post-Industrial Western Countries - Raff CarmenPart IV: From Local OWs to National Employment Generation Systems17. The Brazilian PROGEI-SIPGEIs - Jacinta C. B. Correia18. 'More than a Job: A Future': The PAE Self-Employment Programme in Brazil - Walter Barelli19. The OW and Civil Society Organizations in Brazil - Jacinta C. B. Correia20. OW's Potential: Concluding Observations - Miguel Sobrado

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