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019 _a(OCoLC)957638529
020 _a9781501705892
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024 7 _a10.7591/9781501705892
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501705892
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035 _a(OCoLC)957137994
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aHD6508
_b.B584 2017
072 7 _aPOL013000
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082 0 4 _a331.880973
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBobo, Kim
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Worker Center Handbook :
_bA Practical Guide to Starting and Building the New Labor Movement /
_cMarien Casillas Pabellon, Kim Bobo.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource (328 p.) :
_b10 halftones, 3 tables
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. Worker Center Background and Vision --
_tPART I. Starting a Worker Center --
_t2. Surveying Your Community --
_t3. Recruiting a Leadership Planning Team --
_t4. Holding Initial Planning Meetings --
_t5. Raising Start-up Funds and Donations --
_t6. Hosting Workers’ Rights Training Sessions --
_t7. Creating Early Programs and Actions --
_t8. Hiring Great Staff --
_t9. Doing the Legal Stuff --
_tPART II. Building the Work --
_t10. Reaching Workers, Building Leadership --
_t11. Mastering Direct Action --
_t12. Organizing a Wage Th eft Campaign --
_t13. Focusing on a Sector --
_t14. Organizing around Health and Safety Issues --
_t15. Working with Faith Communities --
_t16. Partnering with Unions --
_t17. Building Multiracial Organizations --
_tPART III. Building the Infrastructure --
_t18. Being Mindful of Opposing Forces --
_t19. Taking Fund-raising Seriously --
_t20. Managing Money Well --
_t21. Using Data for Growth --
_t22. Nurturing an Awesome Board --
_t23. Fostering a Strong Staff Team --
_t24. Developing a Communications Program --
_t25. Buying Your Own Property --
_tPART IV. Taking the Work to Scale --
_t26. Combining Services and Organizing: Functional Organizing --
_t27. Building Membership Structures --
_t28. Helping Workers Organize Work-site Committees or Unions --
_t29. Partnering with Lawyers --
_t30. Engaging and Honoring Ethical Employers --
_t31. Integrating Civic Engagement --
_tAppendix A Books and Articles --
_tAppendix B Worker Center Networks --
_tAppendix C Worker Centers --
_tAppendix D How Worker Centers Can Keep 501c3 Tax Exempt Status, by Brian Glick --
_tAppendix E Popular Education Training Resources
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aWorker 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 these centers struggle as they try to raise funds, maintain stable staff, and build a membership base. For this book, Kim Bobo and Marién Casillas Pabellón, two women with extensive experience supporting and leading worker centers, have interviewed staff at a broad range of worker centers with the goal of helping others understand how to start and build their organizations. This book is not theoretical, but rather is designed to be a practical workbook for staff, boards, and supporters of worker centers.Geared toward groups that want to build worker centers, this book discusses how to survey the community, take on an initial campaign, recruit leaders, and raise seed funds. Bobo and Casillas Pabellón also provide a wealth of advice to help existing centers become stronger and more effective. The Worker Center Handbook compiles best practices from around the country on partnering with labor, enlisting the assistance of faith communities and lawyers, raising funds, developing a serious membership program, integrating civic engagement work, and running major campaigns. The authors urge center leaders to both organize and build strong administrative systems. Full of concrete examples from worker centers around the country, the handbook is practical and honest about challenges and opportunities.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aCommunity centers
_zUnited States
_vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
650 0 _aCommunity centers
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aLabor movement
_zUnited States
_vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
650 0 _aLabor movement
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aLabor unions
_xOrganizing
_zUnited States
_vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
650 0 _aLabor unions
_xOrganizing
_zUnited States.
650 4 _aLabor History.
650 4 _aReference.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
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653 _aWorker centers, labor, community, organizations, campaign, raise funds.
700 1 _aCasillas Pabellon, Marien
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501705892
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501705892
856 4 2 _3Cover
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