Jane McAlevey | |
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 McAlevey in 2014 | |
| Born | October 12, 1964 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 7, 2024 (aged 59) Muir Beach, California, 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 | 1984–2024 |
| Website | Official website |
Jane F. McAlevey (October 12, 1964 – July 7, 2024) was an American union organizer, author, and political commentator.[1][2][3] She was a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and a columnist at The Nation.
McAlevey contended that only workers have the power, through organization, to force significant change in the workplace and in society at large. Her model, what she called 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 wrote 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).
- ^ Guttenplan, D.D. (February 7, 2017). "The Labor Movement Must Learn These Lessons From the Election". The Nation. Archived from the original on January 25, 2019. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
- ^ Brian Lehrer (June 25, 2018). "The Case for Unions". The Brian Lehrer Show. Archived from the original on January 25, 2019. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
- ^ Tattersall, Amanda; ChangeMakers; McAlevey, Jane (2021). "ChangeMaker Chat with Jane McAlevey: Winning Change Through Organising". Commons Social Change Library. Archived from the original on June 23, 2022. Retrieved June 23, 2022.