We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big

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Eric Blanc

We Are the Union

How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big

Eric Blanc

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University of California Press
18 February 2025

Labour economics; Trade unions; Industrial arbitration & negotiation

A riveting account of labor's bottom-up resurgence, providing a roadmap for workers, unions, and social movements to win widely.

After decades of union decline and rising inequality, an inspiring wave of workplace organizing—from Starbucks stores to Amazon warehouses to southern auto factories—has thrust unionization into the national spotlight. By analyzing this surge and telling the stories of the courageous workers driving it forward, We Are the Union makes a case for how to overcome business as usual in both corporate America and organized labor.

Eric Blanc shows that recent struggles have developed a new organizing model, worker-to-worker unionism, which builds scalable power by giving rank-and-filers an unprecedented degree of leadership. Through digital tools and ambitious campaigns, young worker leaders are turning the labor movement back into a movement—and they're winning. Rigorously researched and compellingly written, We Are the Union illustrates how this new grassroots approach can exponentially grow the power of working people to overcome economic exploitation, racial injustice, and authoritarianism at work and beyond.

By: Eric Blanc
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780520394902
ISBN 10: 0520394909
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 18 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents List of Illustrations Prologue Introduction PART ONE: ANALYSIS 1. Defining Worker-to-Worker Unionism 2. Organizing on a Dispersed Terrain PART TWO: EXAMPLES OF VICTORY 3. Three Worker-to-Worker Wins 4. Many Ways to Win (Beyond First Contracts) 5. Starbucks Workers’ Big Breakthrough PART THREE: HOW TO WIN BIG 6. Which Model Can Win Widely? 7. Tactics to Win Big PART FOUR: DRIVING FORCES 8. Government Policy 9. Digital Tools 10. Youth Radicalization Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Survey and Interview Methodology Notes Bibliography Index

Eric Blanc is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at Rutgers University, an organizer trainer in the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, author of Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics, and director of the Worker to Worker Collaborative.