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
Jane F. McAlevey (born October 12, 1964) is an American union organizer, author, and political commentator.[1][2][3] 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.
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).
^Guttenplan, D.D. (February 7, 2017). "The Labor Movement Must Learn These Lessons From the Election". The Nation. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
^Brian Lehrer (June 25, 2018). "The Case for Unions". The Brian Lehrer Show. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
^Tattersall, Amanda; ChangeMakers; McAlevey, Jane (2021). "ChangeMaker Chat with Jane McAlevey: Winning Change Through Organising". Commons Social Change Library. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
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