Episode · Breaking Points · 2025-04-23
Books mentioned on Layoff BLOODBATH: Liberation Day Hits US Factories
Emily Jashinsky recommended We Are the Union by Eric Blanc. Eric Blanc discussed The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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We Are the Union
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.
Recommended“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”
Where to get it
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The Jungle
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a 1906 novel that serves as a harsh expose of working conditions in Chicago's meatpacking industry during the Gilded Age.
Discussed“Well, you know, read read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair to get a sense of, you know, how horrible it was to work in the factories of that era.”
Where to get it
