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1 online resource |
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 |
Summary |
Worker centres are becoming an important element in labour and community organising and the struggle for fair pay and decent working conditions for low-wage workers, especially immigrants. There are currently more than two hundred worker centres in the U.S., and more start every month. Most of these centres struggle as they try to raise funds, maintain stable staff, and build a membership base. For this book, the authors have interviewed staff at a broad range of worker centres with the goal of helping others understand how to start and build their organisations |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Community centers -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Labor movement -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Community centers
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Labor movement
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Labor unions -- Organizing
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Casillas Pabellón, Marién, 1980- author.
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ISBN |
9781501705892 |
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150170589X |
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1501706446 |
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9781501706448 |
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