Ask Labor Jane: “I Quit My Job to Dedicate Myself to Organizing. What Now?”

Introducing our new organizing advice column, with labor organizer and strategist Jane McAlevey.

Chicago teachers on the streets during the 2012 strike. stweedy / Flickr


Jane McAlevey has been an organizer and negotiator in the labor movement for over twenty years. While she continues to organize, she writes for various publications and is the author of three books, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)No Shortcuts, Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, and the forthcoming A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing & the Fight for Democracy.

Thousands of new organizers have passed through trainings with Jane McAlevey. Now, you can have your own organizing questions answered, in Jacobin’s newest column, “Ask me about labor and strategy,” with Jane McAlevey.


Hi Jane,

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