The worker center handbook : a practical guide to starting and building the new labor movement / Kim Bobo and Marién Casillas Pabellón.

Author
Bobo, Kimberley A. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016.
Description
vii, 311 pages ; 26 cm

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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781501704475 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 1501704478
    LCCN
    2016013227
    OCLC
    945550009
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