Our first installment of our two-week showcase of listener favorites features the late great labor organizer Jane McAlevey. In this July 29, 2017 interview, Jane charts out a course for claiming power in the Trump era - around the bought-off electoral system captured by the rich, and beyond the short-term battles of the online left - towards true power for the American worker, and explains why that path starts with class conciousness and a willingness to battle capital at the point of production.

Jane is author of:

Raising Expectations and Raising Hell, My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement (Verso, 2012).

No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford University Press, 2016).

A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Ecco Press, 2020).

Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2023).

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