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

By (author) Eric Blanc

ISBN13: 9780520394902

Imprint: University of California Press

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Hardback

Published: 18/02/2025

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Description
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.
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
  • Business & management
  • Labour economics
  • Trade unions
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
Height:229
Width:152
Spine:23
Weight:680.00
List Price: £80.00