Micah Uetricht

Micah Uetricht is the managing editor of Jacobin magazine and the host of the Jacobin Radio podcast The Vast Majority. He is the author of two books: Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity and, with Meagan Day, Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism . He is currently at work on a collection of oral histories of radicals from the New Left era who "industrialized," getting jobs in industries like steel and auto in order to organize.

His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Intercept, the Wall Street Journal opinion page, the Nation, the Chicago Reader, Bookforum, and elsewhere. He is a former labor organizer and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America in Chicago.

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