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Good Books
These books are available on the websites listed below and through other book retailers
Secrets of a Successful Organizer
https://www.labornotes.org/secrets
Are there problems where you work? Maybe your pay is too low, conditions are unsafe, or your boss has it in for someone you work with… and you’re ready to do something about it.
This book will show you how to fight back where you work and win. You’ll learn how to identify the key issues in your workplace, build campaigns to tackle them, anticipate management’s tricks and traps, and inspire your co-workers to stand together despite their fears.
We’ve distilled generations of organizing know-how into 47 easily accessible secrets. Put them all together and you’ve got a step-by-step guide to building power on the job.
Beautiful Trouble
https://beautifultrouble.org
Beautiful Trouble brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action.
Among the groups included are Agit-Pop/The Other 98%, The Yes Men/Yes Labs, Code Pink, SmartMeme, The Ruckus Society, Beyond the Choir, The Center for Artistic Activism, Waging Nonviolence, Alliance of Community Trainers and Nonviolence International, Escola de Ativismo, 350.org and The New Organizing Institute.
Troublemaker’s Handbook 2
https://www.labornotes.org/store/troublemakers-handbook-2
This oversize manual is for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they did just that.
The stories run from how to ridicule a pompous boss to a years-long campaign against a multinational corporation. The workplaces represented include factory and white collar, public and private, in the U.S. and Canada.
Each chapter ends with questions designed to get you thinking strategically about how to apply what you’ve read in your workplace.