Book · 2025 · Business & Economics
We Are the Union
How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big
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He's an assistant professor at Ruckers and he's also out with a terrific new book. Highly recommend. Let's put it up on the screen. It's called We Are the Union: How Workertoworker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. an extremely relevant and timely book given how important unions were to building factory jobs into good well-paying um jobs.
Why people recommend it
We Are the Union by Eric Blanc explores the modern worker-to-worker organizing movements that are revitalizing labor unions and achieving significant victories at prominent corporations like Amazon and Starbucks. On an episode of Breaking Points, Emily Jashinsky strongly recommended the book at the beginning of her interview with the author, putting it on screen and highlighting its extreme relevance and timeliness given the critical role of labor and factory jobs in the current economic climate. Jashinsky returned to the book later in the conversation to ask specific questions about how it captures the unique dynamics of these contemporary grassroots organizing efforts, noting that it is the first book to truly dig into these specific modern movements. As the interview concluded, Jashinsky provided a final enthusiastic recommendation and directed viewers to where they could purchase a copy and follow the author's work on Substack. The commentary emphasizes the book's vital role in documenting a shifting labor landscape, offering readers an insider look at how everyday workers are successfully organizing and building collective power in industries traditionally resistant to unionization. Through these detailed discussions, the podcast highlighted the book as an essential resource for understanding the contemporary resurgence of the American labor movement and the changing face of modern employment rights.
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Emily Jashinsky He's an assistant professor at Ruckers and he's also out with a terrific new book. Highly recommend. Let's… 3
“He's an assistant professor at Ruckers and he's also out with a terrific new book. Highly recommend. Let's put it up on the screen. It's called We Are the Union: How Workertoworker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. an extremely relevant and timely book given how important unions were to building factory jobs into good well-paying um jobs”
“Eric, I wanted to ask you a little bit more specifically about your book, which again I highly recommend to people where you dig in for, you know, this is the first book that really does this to these new labor organizing movements, whether it's at Amazon and whether it's Starbucks. this sort of workerto worker organizing model”
“Eric, tell people where they can follow you and where they can buy your book, which again, highly recommend to everybody. Yeah, thanks. Uh, best place to follow me is probably at my Substack, Labor Politics. You just go labor politics.com. You can sign up there and yeah, and get a copy of the book, We Are the Union. You”
