No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey (En

Description: No Shortcuts by Jane F. McAlevey "An examination of strategies for effective organizing"-- FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Todays progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests. Labor unions now focus on the narrowest possible understanding of the interests of their members, and membershipcontinues to decline in lockstep with the narrowing of their goals. Meanwhile, promising movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter lack sufficient power to accomplish meaningful change. Whydo progressives in the United States keep losing on so many issues? In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change, to outlast their bosses in labor fights, and to hold elected leaders accountable. Drawing upon her experience as a scholar and longtime organizer in the student, environmental, and labor movements, McAlevey examines cases from labor unions and social movements to pinpoint thefactors that helped them succeed - or fail - to accomplish their intended goals. McAlevey makes a compelling case that the great social movements of previous eras gained their power from mass organizing, astrategy todays progressives have mostly abandoned in favor of shallow mobilization or advocacy. She ultimately concludes that, 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. Beyond the concrete examples in this book, McAleveys arguments have direct implications for anyone involved in organizing for social change.Much more than cogent analysis, No Shortcuts explains exactly how progressives can go about rebuilding powerful movements at work, in our communities, and at the ballot box. Author Biography 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). Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresList of Tables1. Introduction2. The Power to Win is in the Community, Not the Boardroom3. Nursing Home Unions: Class Snuggle vs. Class Struggle4. Chicago Teachers: Building a Resilient Union5. Smithfield Foods: A Huge Success Youve Hardly Heard About6. Make the Road New York7. Conclusion: Pretend Power vs. Actual PowerNotesBibliographyIndex Review "McAleveys decades as a labor and community organizer means that she knows what organizers do, or should do. This book lifts the lessons McAlevey takes from that craft into the intellectual realm of power and politics. This book is for anyone who wants a democratic society in which ordinary people share power." -- Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America"Jane McAlevey is a deeply experienced, uncommonly reflective organizer. In No Shortcuts, McAlevey stresses the distinction between mobilizing and organizing and examines how systematic conflation of the two has reflected and reinforced the labor movements decline over recent decades. More than a how-to manual for organizers, No Shortcuts is a serious, grounded rumination on building working-class power. It is a must read for everyoneconcerned with social justice in the US." -- Adolph Reed, Jr., Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania"Jane McAlevey is one of the few analysts of social movements today who takes class power and class struggle seriously. McAlevey understands their ineluctable concreteness and force from years of organizing democratic unions that have effectively battled powerful corporations. This is a book for citizens and activists--but also for students and scholars of social movements--who want to understand how the world can and has been changed for the better." -- JeffGoodwin, Professor of Sociology, New York University"Whether it is Black Lives Matter, climate change, feeling the Bern, or worker rights, success hinges on the ability to build real and sustainable power. Jane McAlevey gives us both a practical guide and a set of underlying principles to understand how organizing matters more than any other available strategy to grow power, and, what it means to organize. A must read for anyone hoping to create a better world." -- Dan Clawson, Professor of Sociology, Universityof Massachusetts at Amherst"For those of us grappling with the near-overwhelming difficulties of the how-to of changing our workplaces, communities, and society, No Shortcuts is an invaluable resource." --Jacobin"The heart of No Shortcuts is composed of four case studies that show how those unions still committed to organizing have managed to do it. Some of this, like her treatment of the Chicago Teachers Union, will be familiar, but there is much that is new. For instance, her account of the heroic United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) campaign to organize a sprawling Smithfield Foods pork plant in the small town of Tar Heel, North Carolina a story thatwent largely unreported because of a gag order imposed on the union uncovers one of the most inspiring episodes in recent labor history."--New Labor Forum"No Shortcuts outlines some of the reasons for the decline of trade union power in recent decades, but crucially it also offers solutions. This is undoubtedly one of the best books written in recent years on trade unions and should be considered required reading for anyone with an interest in tackling the decline of the labour movement."--Ruairi Creaney, Freelance Lefty Promotional A compelling call for progressive movements to change their organizing strategies. Long Description The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Todays progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests. Labor unions now focus on the narrowest possible understanding of the interests of their members, and membershipcontinues to decline in lockstep with the narrowing of their goals. Meanwhile, promising movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter lack sufficient power to accomplish meaningful change. Why do progressives in the United States keep losing on so many issues? In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change, to outlast their bosses in labor fights, and to hold elected leaders accountable. Drawing upon her experience as a scholar and longtime organizer in the student, environmental, and labor movements, McAlevey examines cases from labor unions and social movements to pinpoint the factors that helped them succeed - or fail - to accomplish their intended goals. McAleveymakes a compelling case that the great social movements of previous eras gained their power from mass organizing, a strategy todays progressives have mostly abandoned in favor of shallow mobilization or advocacy. She ultimately concludes that, in order to win, progressive movements need strong unions builtfrom bottom-up organizing strategies that place the power for change in the hands of workers and ordinary people at the community level. Beyond the concrete examples in this book, McAleveys arguments have direct implications for anyone involved in organizing for social change. Much more than cogent analysis, No Shortcuts explains exactly how progressives can go about rebuilding powerful movements at work, in our communities, and at the ballot box. Review Text "McAleveys decades as a labor and community organizer means that she knows what organizers do, or should do. This book lifts the lessons McAlevey takes from that craft into the intellectual realm of power and politics. This book is for anyone who wants a democratic society in which ordinary people share power." -- Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America"Jane McAlevey is a deeply experienced, uncommonly reflective organizer. In No Shortcuts, McAlevey stresses the distinction between mobilizing and organizing and examines how systematic conflation of the two has reflected and reinforced the labor movements decline over recent decades. More than a how-to manual for organizers, No Shortcuts is a serious, grounded rumination on building working-class power. It is a must read for everyoneconcerned with social justice in the US." -- Adolph Reed, Jr., Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania"Jane McAlevey is one of the few analysts of social movements today who takes class power and class struggle seriously. McAlevey understands their ineluctable concreteness and force from years of organizing democratic unions that have effectively battled powerful corporations. This is a book for citizens and activists--but also for students and scholars of social movements--who want to understand how the world can and has been changed for the better." -- JeffGoodwin, Professor of Sociology, New York University"Whether it is Black Lives Matter, climate change, feeling the Bern, or worker rights, success hinges on the ability to build real and sustainable power. Jane McAlevey gives us both a practical guide and a set of underlying principles to understand how organizing matters more than any other available strategy to grow power, and, what it means to organize. A must read for anyone hoping to create a better world." -- Dan Clawson, Professor of Sociology, Universityof Massachusetts at Amherst"For those of us grappling with the near-overwhelming difficulties of the how-to of changing our workplaces, communities, and society, No Shortcuts is an invaluable resource." --Jacobin"The heart of No Shortcuts is composed of four case studies that show how those unions still committed to organizing have managed to do it. Some of this, like her treatment of the Chicago Teachers Union, will be familiar, but there is much that is new. For instance, her account of the heroic United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) campaign to organize a sprawling Smithfield Foods pork plant in the small town of Tar Heel, North Carolina a story thatwent largely unreported because of a gag order imposed on the union uncovers one of the most inspiring episodes in recent labor history." --New Labor Forum"No Shortcuts outlines some of the reasons for the decline of trade union power in recent decades, but crucially it also offers solutions. This is undoubtedly one of the best books written in recent years on trade unions and should be considered required reading for anyone with an interest in tackling the decline of the labour movement." --Ruairi Creaney, Freelance Lefty Review Quote "McAleveys decades as a labor and community organizer means that she knows what organizers do, or should do. This book lifts the lessons McAlevey takes from that craft into the intellectual realm of power and politics. This book is for anyone who wants a democratic society in which ordinary people share power." -- Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America "Jane McAlevey is a deeply experienced, uncommonly reflective organizer. In No Shortcuts, McAlevey stresses the distinction between mobilizing and organizing and examines how systematic conflation of the two has reflected and reinforced the labor movements decline over recent decades. More than a how-to manual for organizers, No Shortcuts is a serious, grounded rumination on building working-class power. It is a must read for everyone concerned with social justice in the US." -- Adolph Reed, Jr., Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania "Jane McAlevey is one of the few analysts of social movements today who takes class power and class struggle seriously. McAlevey understands their ineluctable concreteness and force from years of organizing democratic unions that have effectively battled powerful corporations. This is a book for citizens and activists--but also for students and scholars of social movements--who want to understand how the world can and has been changed for the better." -- Jeff Goodwin, Professor of Sociology, New York University "Whether it is Black Lives Matter, climate change, feeling the Bern, or worker rights, success hinges on the ability to build real and sustainable power. Jane McAlevey gives us both a practical guide and a set of underlying principles to understand how organizing matters more than any other available strategy to grow power, and, what it means to organize. A must read for anyone hoping to create a better world." -- Dan Clawson, Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst "For those of us grappling with the near-overwhelming difficulties of the how-to of changing our workplaces, communities, and society, No Shortcuts is an invaluable resource." --Jacobin "The heart of No Shortcuts is composed of four case studies that show how those unions still committed to organizing have managed to do it. Some of this, like her treatment of the Chicago Teachers Union, will be familiar, but there is much that is new. For instance, her account of the heroic United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) campaign to organize a sprawling Smithfield Foods pork plant in the small town of Tar Heel, North Carolina a story that went largely unreported because of a gag order imposed on the union uncovers one of the most inspiring episodes in recent labor history." --New Labor Forum "No Shortcuts outlines some of the reasons for the decline of trade union power in recent decades, but crucially it also offers solutions. This is undoubtedly one of the best books written in recent years on trade unions and should be considered required reading for anyone with an interest in tackling the decline of the labour movement." --Ruairi Creaney, Freelance Lefty Feature Selling point: Argues that 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 changeSelling point: McAlevey brings an informed, real-world perspective to the topic as a longtime activist, organizer, and scholarSelling point: Provides a clear analysis of power for movements and unions that often dont understand their own sources of power or how to use it effectivelySelling point: Features case studies from a broad array of labor unions and social movements, including the Chicago Teachers Union which is gearing up for a showdown with the Governor of IllinoisSelling point: The recent US Supreme Court cases such as Knox v. SEIU, Harris v. Quinn and Friedrichs v California Teachers Association demonstrate how the issue of unions, workers rights, and inequality will continue to be front and center in key debates in the USA. New Feature Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables 1. Introduction 2. The Power to Win is in the Community, Not the Boardroom 3. Nursing Home Unions: Class Snuggle vs. Class Struggle 4. Chicago Teachers: Building a Resilient Union 5. Smithfield Foods: A Huge Success Youve Hardly Heard About 6. Make the Road New York 7. Conclusion: Pretend Power vs. Actual Power Notes Bibliography Index Details ISBN0190868651 Pages 280 Language English Year 2018 ISBN-10 0190868651 ISBN-13 9780190868659 Format Paperback Subtitle Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age DEWEY 322.0973 Illustrations 4 b/w illustrations Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Short Title No Shortcuts Publication Date 2018-05-31 UK Release Date 2018-05-31 AU Release Date 2018-05-31 NZ Release Date 2018-05-31 US Release Date 2018-05-31 Author Jane F. McAlevey Alternative 9780190624712 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131392416;

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