Bobo, Kimberley A.,
The worker center handbook a practical guide to starting and building the new labor movement / [electronic resource] : Kim Bobo and Marien Casillas Pabellón. - Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9781501705892
Community centers--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Labor unions--Organizing--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Labor movement--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Electronic books.
HD6508 / .B584 2016
331.880973
The worker center handbook a practical guide to starting and building the new labor movement / [electronic resource] : Kim Bobo and Marien Casillas Pabellón. - Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9781501705892
Community centers--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Labor unions--Organizing--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Labor movement--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Electronic books.
HD6508 / .B584 2016
331.880973