Kim Bobo, Marien Casillas Pabellon

The Worker Center Handbook

A Practical Guide to Starting and Building the New Labor Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

Kim Bobo is Executive Director of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy. She is the author of Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid and What We Can Do about It and Lives Matter: A Handbook for Christian Organizing and coauthor of Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists. Mari¿Casillas-Pabell¿n is the former Worker Center Network Coordinator at Interfaith Worker Justice. Before joining IWJ, she was Executive Director of New Labor, a worker center in New Jersey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781501704475
• ISBN-10: 1501704478
• Artikelnr.: 45194503

Autorenporträt

Kim Bobo and Marien Casillas Pabellon

Inhaltsangabe

1 Worker Center Background and Vision
PART I Starting a Work 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 Theft 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