McAlevey is a union organizer, scholar, author, and political commentator.
She has contributed to The New York Times, The Nation, Jacobin, In These Times, Catalyst, Politics & Society, AlterNet and other publications.
In June 2019, University of California, Berkeley Labor Center announced the appointment of McAlevey as a Senior Policy Fellow.
She was also named Strikes correspondent for The Nation magazine.
She's written two books about power and strategy and the essential role of workers and trade unions in reversing income inequality and building a stronger democracy: No Shortcuts - Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Raising Expectations and Raising Hell (Verso Books, 2012)
Her third book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy, will be published by Ecco Press in January, 2020.She is also writing a fourth book, Striking Back, to be published by Verso Books in 2020.
McAlevey has appeared on numerous television and radio shows as well as podcasts.
Author: Photograph by Alice Attie Source: emailed to me by the owner Jane McAlevey Previously published: on inside back flap and promo shot of Jane McAlevey’s book Raising Expectations and Raising Hell License: CC-BY-4.0