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“In this wired age, the opportunities are boundless for worker-to-worker communication, building power directly in the workplace.  Blanc well summarizes how powerful these tools are and the opportunity they present to build union power from the ground up.” * Power at Work Blog * ""A compelling case not only for organizing millions more workers into the labor movement but for doing it in a way that could help them build power in their unions and in their workplaces."" * Jacobin * ""Nearly 60% of workers in America say they would support having a union where they work, yet only 11% have one. This thoughtful book uses recent organizing at Starbucks and other companies to discuss ways to close that gap. The central thesis is that to get to the necessary scale existing unions need to invest far more resources in supporting organizing led by workers themselves."" * World Wide Work * ""We owe a debt of gratitude to Eric Blanc for We Are the Union, and for his continuing outspoken activism in support of labor organizing. . . . We Are the Union gives us rich stories of worker-initiated organizing, in many cases leading to dramatic victories."" * Convergence *

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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.

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