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.
  • ©2016
Description
vii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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Author
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 ((pbk.; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016013227
OCLC
945550009
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