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War Isn’t Working for American Workers
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 Apr. 24, 2026 | JOBS | […] The growing influence of military tech barons in defense procurement reflects a long-standing pattern in which weapons contractors exert outsize political influence to secure sustained military funding, further consolidating corporate power while continuing to erode the unionized jobs that once defined the sector. In other words, the US war industry is a dead end for workers. But the solution isn’t to expand military spending or attempt to reform the war industry; it is to build a new industrial base focused on green manufacturing instead of military production — redirecting skills, infrastructure, and state capacity away from war and toward socially beneficial sectors that actually deliver stable, broadly shared gains for working people… Jacobin
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