Eric Blanc is a journalist, writer, educator, sociologist, faculty of labor studies at Rutgers University, researching new workplace organizing, strikes, digital labor activism, and working-class politics. A former high school teacher, Blanc is author of the books Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Verso 2019), and We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big (UC Press 2025).