No Shortcuts

Today's progressives have given up on organizing and now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington. Meanwhile, promising movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter cannot build enough power to accomplish meaningful change. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives must adopt bottom-up organizing strategies that place the power for change in the hands of workers and ordinary people at the community level in order to rebuild powerful social movements.

Jane F. McAlevey is a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. A longtime organizer in the environmental and labor movements, she is the author of Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement (Verso).

- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Different Strategies Produce Different Levels of Power
- Chapter 3: Nursing Home Unions, Washington versus Connecticut
- Chapter 4 Chicago Teachers Union, Before and After 2010
- Chapter 5 Smithfield Foods
- Chapter 6 Make the Road New York
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index