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 coauthor, with Bob Ostertag, of Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement.
The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC ...[SEE MORE]