The Worker Center Handbook : : A Practical Guide to Starting and Building the New Labor Movement /

The Worker Center Handbook : : A Practical Guide to Starting and Building the New Labor Movement / / Marien Casillas Pabellon, Kim Bobo.

Worker centers are becoming an important element in labor and community organizing and the struggle for fair pay and decent working conditions for low-wage workers, especially immigrants. There are currently more than two hundred worker centers in the country, and more start every month. Most of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Bobo, Kim,
Casillas Pabellon, Marien,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 10 halftones, 3 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Worker Center Background and Vision
  • PART I. Starting a Worker Center
  • 2. Surveying Your Community
  • 3. Recruiting a Leadership Planning Team
  • 4. Holding Initial Planning Meetings
  • 5. Raising Start-up Funds and Donations
  • 6. Hosting Workers’ Rights Training Sessions
  • 7. Creating Early Programs and Actions
  • 8. Hiring Great Staff
  • 9. Doing the Legal Stuff
  • PART II. Building the Work
  • 10. Reaching Workers, Building Leadership
  • 11. Mastering Direct Action
  • 12. Organizing a Wage Th eft Campaign
  • 13. Focusing on a Sector
  • 14. Organizing around Health and Safety Issues
  • 15. Working with Faith Communities
  • 16. Partnering with Unions
  • 17. Building Multiracial Organizations
  • PART III. Building the Infrastructure
  • 18. Being Mindful of Opposing Forces
  • 19. Taking Fund-raising Seriously
  • 20. Managing Money Well
  • 21. Using Data for Growth
  • 22. Nurturing an Awesome Board
  • 23. Fostering a Strong Staff Team
  • 24. Developing a Communications Program
  • 25. Buying Your Own Property
  • PART IV. Taking the Work to Scale
  • 26. Combining Services and Organizing: Functional Organizing
  • 27. Building Membership Structures
  • 28. Helping Workers Organize Work-site Committees or Unions
  • 29. Partnering with Lawyers
  • 30. Engaging and Honoring Ethical Employers
  • 31. Integrating Civic Engagement
  • Appendix A Books and Articles
  • Appendix B Worker Center Networks
  • Appendix C Worker Centers
  • Appendix D How Worker Centers Can Keep 501c3 Tax Exempt Status, by Brian Glick
  • Appendix E Popular Education Training Resources

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