Author of the books We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big (UC Press 2025) and Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Verso 2019), and a forthcoming book on the death and rebirth of community in America, Eric Blanc is an assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University, researching organizing and working-class politics.

You can receive a newsletter of his research here: laborpolitics.com

His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Guardian, and Jacobin, as well as journals such as ILR Review, Politics & Society, New Labor Forum, and Labor Studies Journal.

A longtime labor activist, Blanc is an organizer trainer in the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, which he helped co-found in March 2020. He directs The Worker to Worker Collaborative, a center to help unions and rank-and-file groups scale up their efforts by expanding their members’ involvement and leadership.

He can be reached at eric.blanc [at] rutgers.edu