Hello and

welcome to the vast majority. I'm Jacobin managing editor Micah Eutricht.

The Democratic Socialist of America Convention

took place over the first weekend in August in Atlanta and a lot of things

were voted on. One of them was a resolution to engage in the rank and file strategy for work

in the labor movement. Now there's a lot of confusion within

DSA and certainly outside of it about what exactly this approach to labor work looks like.

Barry Eidlin is here to explain it.

Barry Eidlin is an assistant professor of sociology at McGill University

and author of the book Labor and the Class idea in the United States and Canada

as well as a regular contributor to Jacobin.

He was also a union organizer and an organizer for Teamsters for a Democratic Union in a past life.

He was my advisor in grad school where I spent a good chunk of time reading and thinking and

writing about the rank-of-file strategy.

Barry and I co-wrote an article that appears in the Labor Studies Journal called

U.S. Union Revitalization and the missing militant minority, which I'll include a link to in the show notes,

although it is behind a paywall.

So if you want a PDF, you can hit me up on Twitter or via email,

and I'll send it to you.

And he also wrote an article called

What is the Rank-and-file strategy and why does it matter

for Jacobin?

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