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''No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age'' () is a 2016
non-fiction Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often associated with be ...
book by
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 N ...
, in which the author argues that meaningful social change can only happen when organizing is built around workers and ordinary people at the community level. The book uses case studies from the labor unions and social movements. A German edition was published by VSA: Verlag, a division of
Springer Science+Business Media Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 in ...
, in February 2019.


Overview

Chapters include "The Power to Win is in the Community, Not the Boardroom," "Nursing Home Unions: Class Snuggle vs. Class Struggle," "Chicago Teachers: Building a Resilient Union," "Smithfield Foods: A Huge Success You've Hardly Heard About," and "Make the Road New York." As she dissects each case, she identifies the reasons for the movement's success or failure.


Reception

The book received positive reviews from Dayna Tortorici, and
Sam Gindin Sam Gindin is a Canadian intellectual and activist known for his expertise on the labour movement and the economics of the automobile industry. Gindin's writings have focused on the Canadian Auto Workers, the auto industry, the crisis in organize ...
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Author's Official Website
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