| Preface by Helene Curtis and Mimi Sanderson |
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| Introduction by Sheila Rowbotham |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Down and out |
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1. The point of the battle is to win: Family Squatting Campaign |
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2. £325 to re-house a family: Shelter |
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19 | (16) |
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3. A kind of sixties passion: Centrepoint |
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35 | (17) |
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4. A problem that shouldn't be: Crisis |
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52 | (12) |
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5. We never knew what problem was going to come in: GALS |
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64 | (17) |
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6. Voluntary poverty: The Simon Community |
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81 | (16) |
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7. It was the bad apple: Alcohol Recovery Project |
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97 | (19) |
| On the poverty line |
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8. What an amazing time to be involved in this sort of politics: Child Poverty Action Group |
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116 | (15) |
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9. I was in the natural way of trying to put something right that was wrong, see: Claimants Union |
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131 | (13) |
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10. The public threw their generosity at us: Community Transport |
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144 | (11) |
| Up against the law |
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11. You thought that a really great society was going to come out of all of this: North Kensington Law Centre |
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155 | (13) |
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12. Unjustly refused: Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants |
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168 | (15) |
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13. We were the welfare branch of the alternative society: Release |
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183 | (15) |
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14. You can't deny a woman developing on her own: Prisoners' Wives Service |
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198 | (11) |
| Ripped off |
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15. Can you stand on it?: Consumer Advice Centres |
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209 | (11) |
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16. You've made the mud chum: Newcastle Consumer Group |
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220 | (10) |
| Sexual revolution |
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17. There is always an intolerant minority: Campaign for Homosexual Equality |
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230 | (9) |
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18. Birth control for the unmarried: Brook Advisory Service |
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239 | (8) |
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19. It was years before we could use the word 'abortion': Pregnancy Advisory Service |
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247 | (17) |
| Behind closed doors |
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20. It solved the problem: National Council for the Single Woman and Her Dependants |
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264 | (4) |
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21. You opened the door: National Housewives Register |
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268 | (16) |
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22. He always says he's sorry afterwards: Bristol Women's Aid |
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284 | (14) |
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23. It was just of the time: Gingerbread |
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298 | (9) |
| Does he take sugar? |
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24. You still have to fight tooth and nail: Disablement Income Group |
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307 | (11) |
| We can work it out... |
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25. Faith and action: Leicester Voluntary Workers Bureau |
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318 | (10) |
| Art for all |
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26. Putting colour into the environment: Free Form Arts Trust |
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328 | (14) |
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27. It takes a lot of work to break through; being second is easy: Inter-Action |
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342 | (15) |
| The next generation |
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28. To get our agenda on other people's agenda: Mother Care for Children in Hospital |
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357 | (14) |
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29. Not just a cupboard full of toys: Toy Libraries |
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371 | (10) |
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30. A learning experience for us all: Pre-School Playgroups |
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381 | (13) |
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31. It's difficult to remember what a crazy idea it was at the time: Advisory Centre for Education |
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394 | (16) |
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32. It was more than a full-time job: Task Force |
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410 | (16) |
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33. There are no losers: Young Enterprise |
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426 | (9) |
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34. We rejected nobody: Community Service Volunteers |
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435 | (12) |
| When I'm sixty-four... |
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35. HelpAge: the act of helping: Help the Aged |
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447 | (12) |
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36. Absorbing interests: Pre-Retirement Association |
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| Appendix: List of above organisations as they are today |
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| Index |
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