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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jack van Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. In the decades since publishing our first book,

the memoir Raising Expectations and Raising Hell, my decade fighting for the labor movement.

Veteran organizer Jane McElavi has become a singular figure in the labor movement.

She has written four books on labor, all focused on tactics and strategies to organize mass

numbers of new workers into unions that wage mass strikes to fight employers in order to revive

organized labor's flagging fortunes. She regularly comments on labor in national and

international outlets and she's continued to work on a wide range of union fights throughout

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