A Troublemaker's Handbook 2: How to Fight Back Wher you WorkÑAnd

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 redicule 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.

Contents Include

* Shop Floor Tactics
* Community Coalitions
* Contract Campaigns and Strikes
* Planning a Wildcat Strike
* Sitdowns and Takeovers
* Inside Strategies -- "running the shop backwards"
* Corporate Campaigns
* Organizing Against Racism
* Organizing in the Non--Union Workplace
* Organizing Around Women's Issues
* Taking Power in Your Local Union
* Strategic Planning for Unions -- get your ducks in a row before management does
* Researching Your Employer
* Union Newspapers and Rank and File Newsletters
* Resources

"This book is one that every labor union activist should have at their work station and every elected union representative should have on their desks." -- Dave Yettaw, President, UAW Local 599; Co-chair, New Directions Movement

"After reading a Troublemaker's Handbook one is not just a troublemaker by an educated troublemaker. Anywhere you open this book it has a lesson. It should be called "Encyclopedia for the Union Member" -- everything from the bathroom pass syndrome to organizing immigrant workers to corporate campaigns. This is an education from workers' experiences, victories and losses -- and experience is the best teacher."
-- Mike Ruscigno, Recording Secretary, Teamster Local 138; Steering Committee, Teamsters for a Democratic Union.