Books and pamphlets for study, teaching, and organizing.
Forthcoming academic book
Counseling for Collective Safety
Tristin Hassell and Natalie Hassell
A Central Valley inquiry into counseling, institutional responsibility, and collective care. Through immigration enforcement, environmental harm, war, and college policy, it asks how public institutions can protect student agency and address conditions that produce distress.
Forthcoming. Publication dates and available editions will be announced here.
Forthcoming from the press
Campus Power
Practical guides to campaign strategy, campus labor, mutual aid, money, and control over work.
Campus Power Field guide 01
Where the Power Is
Campaign research and demands that can be enforced
Gathered Commons Press
Forthcoming
Where the Power Is
Find the decision behind a grievance, research who controls it, and write a demand people can enforce. Power mapping, records requests, and worked examples help groups evaluate an offer and follow through.
Campus Power Field guide 04
The Campus Runs on Labor
Worker organizing and student solidarity
Gathered Commons Press
Forthcoming
The Campus Runs on Labor
Organize alongside the workers who keep a campus running. Follow workplace relationships, contractors, and negotiations; develop shared demands, respect workers’ decisions, and check whether agreements change conditions on the job.
Campus Power Field guide 05
The Work of Collective Care
Mutual aid, access, and shared responsibility
Gathered Commons Press
Forthcoming
The Work of Collective Care
Make food, transport, interpretation, and access part of organizing. This guide addresses mutual aid, privacy, scarce resources, and shared responsibility, with practical ways to offer support a group can sustain.
Campus Power Field guide 08
Money and Member Power
Budgets, fundraising, and democratic control
Gathered Commons Press
Forthcoming
Money and Member Power
Keep financial authority with members. Work through budgets, fundraising, fiscal sponsors, spending rules, and reimbursement, using examples and worksheets that make decisions understandable and accountable.
Campus Power Field guide 10
Who Controls the Work?
Platforms and collective control
Gathered Commons Press
Forthcoming
Who Controls the Work?
Keep authority over work when software sets the pace. Examine automated management and platforms, then develop bargaining demands, staffing protections, creative rights, and alternatives that people can choose and leave.
Publication dates and available editions will be announced here.