In These Times Magazine’s New Guide to the Guide’s for the Resistance Puts No Shortcuts on the Short List

• April 28, 2017
• Posted in Book Reviews, No Shortcuts

Kate Aronoff is recommending No Shortcuts for the second time since my new book was published (she did an interview that is also on this website somewhere!). Aronoff offers a concise and smart discussion in her full article, which I recommend reading. Near the end, she says, “In part thanks to the Sanders campaign, this next Left is more explicitly interested in electoral politics, and in finding a synergy between the barricades and the ballot box. Read More

KALW’s Your Call Makes No Shortcuts Book of the Month in January!

• March 15, 2017
• Posted in Book Reviews, Interviews, No Shortcuts

In this near one hour interview, Rose Aguilar and I cover Trump, Bannon and much, much more. Listen to the interview here » Read More

No Shortcuts Makes a Terrific New “Recommended Reading” List in Paste Magazine!

• January 13, 2017
• Posted in Book Reviews, No Shortcuts

The article is called, These are the Seven Books You Need to Understand (and Fight) the Age of Trump. About my book, the author starts with: “Imagine if you didn’t know how to play basketball, and all anyone told you was “pick and roll!” For someone new to political work, this is what the calls to “get organized” can sometimes feel like. Read More

A Really Thoughtful Book Review Just in From Australia

• January 13, 2017
• Posted in Book Reviews, No Shortcuts

“Organising”, says Jane McAlevey, “is fundamentally about having hard conversations with people and not running away from hard issues.” Her latest book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, is true to this sentiment. In it, McAlevey outlines a critique of most contemporary union campaigning, using case studies and other analysis to argue in favour of a deeper and more rigorous approach to organising. Read More

Jacobin Just Posted a Second Good Book Review, Stopping Labor’s Backward March

• January 13, 2017
• Posted in Book Reviews, No Shortcuts

“Readers of No Shortcuts will encounter a book that is markedly different [than her first book], but insightful in new ways, because McAlevey draws from her case studies to develop theory for the rest of us — not in the academic sense, but in the practical one: insights from experience that can inform our strategy going forward. Read More