A review by nb_leftist
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey

5.0

Jane McAlevey brings the readers a engaging explanation of the failures of new labor. Explaining in detail the damages Saul Alinsky has had on all organizing from unions to civil rights organizations, McAlevey makes an inarguably true case for grassroots organization no matter the end goal.

No Shortcuts, a book about the strengths of relying on the workers during a unionization movement, branches across the gaps between labor organizing and a strengthening resurgence in activism explaining the shortcomings of different types of organization models. It rings even truer today with the unionization of Amazon and Starbucks by worker led movements.

I cannot explain how integral this book must become for the people to take the power back.
It is essential.