Handbook for the Revolution

“A conversational how-to for unionizing one’s workplace … Throughout, [Palmer’s] guidance is as common sense as it is compassionate … A useful manual for those with a budding interest in unionizing.” –Publishers Weekly

“When Derrick Palmer and his coworker friends defeated Amazon, they inadvertently created a blueprint for 21st-century organizing. Handbook for the Revolution reveals what those battles taught: vision, tenacity, strategy, and community are the cornerstones of sustaining a movement when everyone wants to see you fail. It offers an honest reckoning with racism, power struggles, and the cost of revolutionary work. In this moment when so many of us are saddled with inordinate amounts of fear and anger, this book offers much needed inspiration and guidance for how to redirect those feelings into action that can save lives.” –Tarana Burke, New York Times-bestselling author of Unbound, activist, and founder of the “Me Too” movement

“Derrick Palmer’s nuts and bolts approach to unionizing the Amazon warehouse on Staten Island is rooted in a powerful insight: People with power refuse to communicate–and that’s how they retain their unjust dominance. People looking for positive change are dependent on communication–for it is only through the transformative nature of relationship, that the stale status quo can be reimagined and overturned.” –Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show

Derrick Palmer is the cofounder of the Amazon Labor Union, which in 2022 successfully unionized an Amazon warehouse for the first time in the company’s history. In 2022, he and union cofounder Christian Smalls were honored with placement on Time’s 100 Most Influential People list and as one of the Dynamic Duos on Ebony’s Power 100 list. He continues to work at the Amazon JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York, where he lives.

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