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Subject(s)

• Labor movement—United States—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Labor unions—Organizing—United States—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Community centers—United States—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Author

• Casillas Pabellón, Marién, 1980- [Browse]

Notes

"ILR/Cornell paperbacks"--Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Worker center background and vision
• Surveying your community
• Recruiting a leadership planning team
• Holding initial planning meetings
• Raising start-up funds and donations
• Hosting workers' rights training sessions
• Creating early programs and actions
• Hiring great staff
• Doing the legal stuff
• Reaching workers, building leadership
• Mastering direct action
• Organizing a wage theft campaign
• Focusing on a sector
• Organizing on health and safety issues
• Working with faith communities
• Partnering with unions
• Building multiracial organizations
• Being mindful of opposing forces
• Taking fund-raising seriously
• Managing money well
• Using data for growth
• Nurturing an awesome board
• Fostering a strong staff team
• Developing a communications program
• Buying your own property
• Combining services and organizing : functional organizing
• Building membership structures
• Helping workers organize work-site committees or unions
• Partnering with lawyers
• Engaging and honoring ethical employers
• Developing a civic participation program.

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ISBN

• 9781501704475 ((pbk.; : alk. paper))
• 1501704478 ((pbk.; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016013227

OCLC

945550009

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