| Abstract: | Community workers have always been concerned with the ideologicalpower of the concept of community. We acknowledge its potentialto organise oppressed people for collective action and socialchange. So, with the emergence of Tony Blair and New Labourin the mid 1990s, it came as no real surprise that they werequick to spot its inherent power. In his early speeches, Blairspoke repeatedly about the need to renew community to counterthe growing fragmentation of life at local, national and evenglobal levels. He promoted |
