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A Troublemaker's Handbook How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win! La Botz, Dan Publisher:  Labor Notes Year Published:  1991   Pages:  262pp   Price:  $17   ISBN:  0-914093-04-5 Book Type:  Handbooks/Manuals Resource Type:  Book An organising manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace. Abstract:  Dan La Botz's A Troublemaker's Handbook: How to Fight Back Where You Work and Win! is an organising manual for workers dealing with both major issues and smaller, everyday problems in the workplace. A wide range of workplace issues is covered including, but not limited to, organisation amongst immigrant workers, against racism, around women's issues and around health and safety. There are also different chapters dedicated to different types of strikes, and instructions on how to go about them, as well as strategic planning for forming and running unions. Large chunks of each chapter contain "inspiring as well as instructive" stories of workers' actual experiences, which help to reinforce the book's underlying premise that "There are common problems and there are collective solutions". The book contains many photographs of actual strikes and successful workers' campaigns as well as a number of comic strips, which portray serious problems in a humorous light, making the book an even easier read. At the end of each chapter there are action questions/exercises, which encourage the reader to relate the chapter to himself and help organise herself better with regard to finding a solution for his personal workplace problem. The writer himself has worked as an organiser for a number of unions. He was a truck driver during the 1970's and a founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union. He has vast first hand experience about much of the material he covers in this book. [Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary] Topics Activism/Radicalism Anti-Racism Contract Negotiations Corporate Information Labour-Management Co-operation Labour-Management Relations Labour Media Labour Organizing Labour Unions Manuals & Handbooks for Activists & Organizers Organizing Racism Sitdowns/Sit-ins Solidarity Strikebreakers Strikes Union Organizing Unions Wildcat Strikes Women & Work Women's Issues Work Issues Workers Workers' Health & Safety Workers' Rights Working Class Workplace Conflict Workplace Health & Safety Workplace Issues Workplace Organizing

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