The UCLA Labor Studies program and Department of History will co-host a Labor Studies Book Talk with Eric Blanc, assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of We are the Union (UC Press, 2025) and will be joined by Alex Caputo-Pearl, UCLA Labor Movement Fellow and former UTLA president, and Mel Deorsola of Starbucks Workers United.

Blanc is also the author of Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Verso, 2019). His research focuses on worker-to-worker organizing, strikes, digital labor activism, and working-class politics.

Join us for a conversation on how worker-to-worker organizing is revitalizing labor and winning big.

Event Details:

• Date: April 28, 2025
• Time: 1:00PM – 3:00PM Pacific Time
• Location: Zoom

For those attending, please click here to RSVP.