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Get on the Job and Organize

Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World

Introduction by Jaz Brisack / Read by Em Grosland
LIST PRICE $26.99

About The Book

A leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front lines to help us organize our own workplaces and “better understand the aims and goals for a resurgent trade union movement and how workers all over the country can join in solidarity with it” (Senator Bernie Sanders).

Get on the Job and Organize is a compelling, stirring narrative of the Starbucks and Tesla unionization efforts, telling the broader story of the new, nationwide labor movement unfolding in our era of political and social unrest. As one of the exciting new faces of the American Labor Movement, Jaz Brisack argues that while workers often organize when their place of work is toxic, it’s equally important to organize when you love your job. Here, Brisack delivers practical advice on how workers can and should stand up for their rights, especially when electoral politics seem to have failed us.

With an accessible tone, a deep love of labor history, and profound empathy, Brisack puts recent efforts into the context of Americans’ long tradition of organizing. In the process, they show us that we, too, can improve our workplaces, from how to educate ourselves and our colleagues, to what backlash to expect and how to fight it, to what victory looks like even if the union doesn’t necessarily win.

A “fascinating insider account” (Publishers Weekly), richly detailed, and with never-before-reported scenes, Get on the Job and Organize is a bold and galvanizing call to fight for the workplaces we deserve.

Appearances

JUN 16
19:00:00
in person
Eugene Debs Hall
In Person
483 Peckham St
Buffalo, NY 14206
JUN 18
18:30:00
in person
P&T Knitwear
In Person
180 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
JUN 21
19:00:00
in person
Red Emma's
In Person
3128 Greenmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218
JUN 23
19:00:00
in person
Politics & Prose
In Person
5015 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington DC, DC 20008
AUG 1
0:00:00
in person
Martha's Vineyard Book Festival
In Person
TK
Edgartown, MA 02539

About The Author

John Logan

Jaz Brisack is a union organizer and cofounder of the Inside Organizer School, which trains workers to unionize. After spending one year at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, they got a job as a barista at the Elmwood Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, becoming a founding member of Starbucks Workers United and helping organize the first unionized Starbucks in the United States. As the organizing director for Workers United Upstate New York & Vermont, they also worked with organizing committees at companies ranging from Ben & Jerry’s to Tesla.

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Product Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio (April 29, 2025)
  • Runtime: 11 hours and 24 minutes
  • ISBN13: 9781668122013

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