Jane McAlevey is an organizer, negotiator, writer and scholar. She is the author of two books, No Shortcuts, Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford 2016) and Raising Expectations and Raising Hell (Verso 2012). She recently earned her PhD under the tutelage of Frances Fox Piven at CUNY. She is currently writing her third book, Striking Back, forthcoming from Verso.
When a millionaire governor decrees austerity, it’s time for the left to step up.
After one of Supreme Court’s most anti-union rulings in recent years, is there still time for organized labor to save itself?
From stopping wage theft to organizing carwasheros, victories have come from meeting workers where they live.
As the Keystone XL battle has shown, the blue-green alliance is in trouble—and only a deeper kind of solidarity can rescue it.
As the showdown in Wisconsin demonstrates, progressives must embrace the government workers’ struggle as our own—or else.
For too long, unions have mistaken access for power. They need to get back to organizing and activating members.