How Can Labor Win at Scale? - by Eric Blanc

[A personal update: After years of research and writing, I just submitted to my publisher the final manuscript of my new book! I discuss some of the book’s big takeaways in an article in the Winter 2024 issue of the journal New Labor Forum as well as in the latest episode of their excellent podcast Reinventing Solidarity. Here’s a transcription of the part of our discussion where I talk about what it’ll take to seize the moment and unionize tens of millions of workers.] Micah Uetricht: Your forthcoming book, We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big (University of California Press, January 2025), is all about what you classify as a new model of organizing, worker-to-worker unionism. Before we get into that model, let's talk about the union organizing model you're contrasting it against. What exactly is the staff-intensive model and what's wrong with it? Eric Blanc: Staff-intensive unionism is a catch all term that refers to different types

[A personal update: After years of research and writing, I just submitted to my publisher the final manuscript of my new book! I discuss some of the book’s big takeaways in an article in the Winter 2024 issue of the journal New Labor Forum as well as in the latest episode of their excellent podcast Reinventing Solidarity. Here’s a transcription of the part of our discussion where I talk about what it’ll take to seize the moment and unionize tens of millions of workers.] Micah Uetricht: Your forthcoming book, We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Bi