Cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Mass layoffs and worker displacement: Overview of the Problems -- 1.1 Definitions of terms -- 1.2 Extent and impact of worker displacement -- 1.3 Overview of worker displacement problems -- 1.4 Problems worker displacement creates for communities -- 1.5 What communities can do to prevent worker dispalcement or minimize its impact -- 2. Organize your community to help employers strengthen their businesses and avert layoffs -- 2.1 Restructuring and layoffs: some fallacies of business life -- 2.2 Reasons for enterprises to restructure -- 2.3 Community business retention/layoff aversion strategies -- 2.4 Organize your community to retain businesses and avert layoffs -- 2.5 Steps communities can take and tools that can be used to retain businesses and avert layoffs -- 2.6 Steps to start a community business retention/layoff aversion program -- ACTION MODULE: Steps to start a community business retention/layoff aversion program -- 3. Assess your community's ability to respond quickly and effectively to worker displacement events -- 3.1 The importance and role of early warning networks, rapid response and industrial adjustment specialists -- 3.2 Using rapid response worker adjustment programs in North America and Hungary -- 3.3 Assess your community's rapid response worker adjustment and economic renewal needs and capacity -- ACTION MODULE: Community worker adjustment needs and rapid response readiness checklist -- 4. Steps IA Specialists take to set up worker adjustment programs and organize reemployment assistance committees to help displaced workers obtain services and find jobs -- 4.1 Role and functions of the reemployment assistance committee (RAC) in worker adjustment programs.

4.2 Steps IA specialists take to start and manage a worker adjustment program in a community -- ACTION MODULE: Steps to start a rapid response worker adjustment program -- 5. Set up a worker assistance resource center (WARC) to provide service to dispaced workers -- 5.1 Role of the IA specialist and the RAC in setting up a WARC -- 5.2 Layout and function of WARCs -- 5.3 Worker adjustment services and the WARC -- 6. Economic renewal strategies and tools communities can use to preserve and create jobs -- 6.1 Community assessment and planning for economic renewal -- 6.2 Using community assessment and planning to facilitate economic renewal in Hungary -- 6.3 Should your community undertake economic renewal? -- Appendix A: Work-Sharing: An Alternative to Lay Off -- Appendix B: Supplementary training modules and resource materials -- Appendix C: List of Acronyms -- Back cover.