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The Worker Center Handbook : A Practical Guide to Starting and Building the New Labor Movement /
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...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2016.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.