Labor Notes Beach Reads: How Starbucks Workers Took On a Behemoth and How To Find What Your Boss is Hiding From You

In their book, Get on the Job and Organize, former Starbucks worker and organizer Jaz Brisack tells the story of the seemingly improbable success of organizing baristas scattered in small stores across the country.

A good companion to Brisack’s account is What the Boss Doesn't Want Us to Know: Discovering Power and Winning Campaigns, by Tom Juravich, Olivia Geho, and Andrew Gorry, a book-length adaptation of research techniques outlined on the website strategiccorporateresearch.org.

If you want to learn who finances your employers, who its key decision makers are, where your employer makes most of its profit, you’d want to start here. 

Labor Notes editor Jenny Brown joins pod co-hosts Danielle Smith and Natascha Elena Uhlmann.