Worker-led Unionization Sweeps the US

Abstract Over the last half-decade, worker-led struggles have spread across US cafes, warehouses, universities, media outlets, and beyond. Reviving the bottom-up spirit that enabled unions to make their big breakthrough in the 1930s, recent worker-to-worker initiatives have shown how this can be done in our sprawled out, economically decentralized conditions. Building off the best traditions of left trade unionism, and leaning on the novel affordances of digital tools, they’ve pioneered new forms of organizing that can extend widely enough to confront the systemic ills plaguing working people.