Resources: Review

Community and Everyday Life By Graham Day Published by Routledge Price 17.99 275 pages ISBN 9 780415 340748

The idea, or perhaps the ideal, of community has always been at the heart of youth work. Within the club, workers seek to create miniature communities. On the street, they try to eradicate barriers between young people and the wider community. Increasingly, projects are funded to strengthen community, for example cultivating social inclusion, promoting intergenerational contacts or building community cohesion. Whatever the label, the implicit expectation is that youth work interventions will foster better relations within the community and help young people become more active within it, encouraging co-operation between individuals and reducing conflict within a locality.