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The worker center handbook : a practical guide to starting and building the new labor movement / Kim Bobo and Marién Casillas Pabellón.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bobo, Kimberley A., author.
- Casillas Pabellón, Marién, 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor movement--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Labor movement.
- Labor unions--Organizing--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Labor unions.
- Community centers--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Community centers.
- Labor unions--Organizing.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Worker center background and vision
- Surveying your community
- Recruiting a planning leadership team
- Holding initial planning meetings
- Raising start-up funds
- Hosting worker rights training sessions
- Creating early actions and programs
- 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 multi-racial organizations
- Being mindful of opposing forces
- Taking fundraising seriously
- Managing money well
- Using data for growth
- Nurturing an awesome board
- Fostering a strong staff team
- Developing a communications program
- Buying your own building
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781501705892
- 150170589X
- Publisher Number:
- 99969497806
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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