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Eric Blanc
- Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations (LSER)
Expertise
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Unionization methods
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Digital technologies and organizing strategy
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Labor strikes
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Comparative working-class politics
Eric Blanc researches new workplace organizing, digital labor activism, strikes, and working-class politics. His forthcoming book We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big (University of California Press, 2025) analyzes the growth of worker-to-worker organizing in the US since early 2020.
Author of the books Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Verso 2019) and Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire, 1882-1917 (Brill 2021), his research has appeared in journals such as Politics & Society, New Labor Forum, and Labor Studies Journal as well as publications such as The Nation, The Guardian, and Jacobin.
A longtime organizer in public education and labor movements, Blanc is a trainer in the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.
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