A consensus is emerging across the political spectrum around the need for industrial policy. While the Trump administration places a lot of rhetorical emphasis on bringing back industrial jobs, its policies so far have displayed a profound lack of seriousness or coherence. The discussion, fraught and flawed as it is, has captured the attention and imagination of liberals who don’t usually make a habit of thinking about industrial policy. But there’s one constituency whose voice is missing and sorely needed in that debate: industrial workers and their unions. It’s precisely the kind of forward-thinking approach labor needs to take on industrial policy.