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Two types of shutdowns hit the headlines this week. The first is a nightmarish repeat: A handful of right-wing radicals in Congress…
Jane McAlevey
Jane F. McAlevey is an American union organizer, author, and political commentator. Since June 2019, McAlevey is a Senior Policy Fellow of the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center. She was also named Strikes correspondent for The Nation magazine. McAlevey has written three books about power and strategy and the essential role of workers and trade unions in reversing income inequality and building a stronger democracy: No Shortcuts - Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford University Press, 2016), Raising Expectations and Raising Hell (Verso Books, 2012), and her third book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy, which was published by Ecco Press in January 2020.
As a longtime labor organizer, scholar, and writer, Jane McAlevey has repeatedly articulated how mass numbers of workers can organize, negotiate, strike,…
The wave of unionization continues apace across the United States and elsewhere in the world, but there’s often much less attention paid…
Fairfield County, Connecticut, was a region where Fortune 500 companies held absolute political power. They’d convinced the population to be thankful to…
Below is the response to a review by Steve Early of Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting For the Labor…