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Informationen zum Autor Kim Bobo and Marien Casillas Pabellon Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
