Book Discussion: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

“Meaningful change can only happen with organizing that puts ordinary people at the center of their own struggle: there are no shortcuts to lasting social change.”
A scholar and longtime organizer in the student, environmental and labor movements, McAlevey makes a compelling case that the gains of the two most successful social movements–labor and civil rights–gained their power from mass organizing, a strategy today’s progressives have mostly abandoned in favor of shallow mobilization or advocacy.  In order to win, progressive movements need strong unions built from bottom-up organizing strategies that place the power for change in the hands of workers and ordinary people at the community level.Join us at the UC Berkeley Labor Center for a conversation with Jane McAlevey to talk about her new book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age.

This event is free and open to the public.  Space is limited; please register in advance.  Books will be available for purchase at the event and are also available online from Oxford University Press.

Jane F. McAlevey is a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School.  She is also the author of Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement