Secrets of a Successful Organizer, the perfect guide to the organizer and union organizer!

Unable to speak Secret of a Succesful Organizer without first mentioning Labor Notes, the organization that issued. Labor Notes is a movement that, since 1979, gathers militant.e.s union, in order to recover the "movement" in "labor movement". Publishing various books and organizing conferences and trainings aimed at renewing trade unionism by a practice-oriented " rank and file ». Found elsewhere all their books in section on the origins of the Solidarity trade union on the site of theIWW.

Secret of a Succesfull Organizer is also the youngest of Labor Notes. It aims to create a synthesis of previous books and manuals. While making 265 pages, a significant proportion of the artPace is devoted to images or left "empty" between two lessons to separate the ideas and thus easier to read.

It's made of 47 « secrets "Divided into 8 major "lessons". The formula is clear : the " secret "A page to a page and a half, then an example from a fight over a page or two and finally one year. Exercise can include reminders, questions or activity, as a questionnaire or a paper helping us to make a social or physical mapping notre workplace e.g..

Lance yourself in this passage Secret #21 in here! Then why not continue doing your mapping physique and social?

Although deliverede may be read quickly, this is not the best way to approach : collective action is not studying alone. Procure two copies to read it un.e colleague, of collective confession ofauthor.e.s, the best waydraw some chose : read a lesson, and practicing with games of roles or exercises, ask questions and apply them to the situation is the best approach. It gives us concepts and advice, but their application and practice remainsnt the major challenges. Getting organized takes time and many try and there are no shortcuts : « It’s often tempting to seize onsomething that promises quick results […] Shortcuts usually ends in detours, which lead to dead ends. ».

For members of the IWW in Canada, you will find the main points of the OT-101 (AEIOU, mapping, suivits, etc), which may make this book a good quick reference and even a guide to follow step by step the progress of your campaign. 5 pages are on the right US and therefore apply badly, but it's very little lost. Finally, its main obstacles is the difficulty to procure a physical copy. Is not available in Quebec, delivery and customs charges can take it to a higher price for an individual wanting to get one single, but discounts , up 40%, for wholesale orders make the control group, see very interesting branche. There is also soNo English bilingual and Spanish-speaking soon, translation into French and reproduction in Quebec could be done without hindrance, if not one of the important work is the thing.

The fact remains that this little book is a great companion to any organizers or organizers, to be lugged, annotated and used extensively, whether by un.e apprenti.e from the organization or un.e veteran, this book is an excellent tool even if ultimately it's practice and not the studyssidue which will be decisive.

If this book interests you, first lessons are available as "over " in online on the website of labor notes : http://www.labornotes.org/beatingapathy.