Jane McAlevey
Jane F. McAlevey (born October 12, 1964) is an American union organizer, author, and political commentator. She is a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and a columnist at The Nation.
Jane McAlevey | |
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| Born | October 12, 1964 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Education | State University of New York, Buffalo (BA) Graduate Center, CUNY (MA, PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | union, environmental and community organizer, scholar, author, political commentator |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Website | Official website |
McAlevey contends that only workers have the power, through organization, to force significant change in the workplace and in society at large. Her model, what she calls whole-worker organizing, sees workers and the community they live in as a whole. The underlying theory of change requires a systematic, grassroots mass organization of workers.
McAlevey has written four books about organizing and the essential role of workers and trade unions in reversing income inequality and building a stronger democracy: Raising Expectations and Raising Hell (2012), No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (2016), A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (2020), and with Abby Lawlor, Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (2023).