Eric Blanc

Eric Blanc researches new workplace organizing, digital labor activism, strikes, and working-class politics. His forthcoming book DIY Unionism: How Bottom-Up Organizing, Digital Tools, and Young, Risk-Taking Leaders Are Revitalizing Labor (University of California Press, 2023) 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.