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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor

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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Steven GreenhousePublish date:2019-08-06Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781101874431ISBN-10:1101874430UPC:9781101874431Book Category:Business & Economics, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Labor, Labor & Industrial Relations, Social Classes & Economic DisparitySize:9.40 x 6.50 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.6314Product ID:SC67WEJAMY
"A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes.... Engrossing, character-driven, panoramic." --The New York Times Book Review

We live in an era of soaring corporate profits and anemic wage gains, one in which low-paid jobs and blighted blue-collar communities have become a common feature of our nation's landscape. Behind these trends lies a little-discussed problem: the decades-long decline in worker power.

Award-winning journalist and author Steven Greenhouse guides us through the key episodes and trends in history that are essential to understanding some of our nation's most pressing problems, including increased income inequality, declining social mobility, and the concentration of political power in the hands of the wealthy few. He exposes the modern labor landscape with the stories of dozens of American workers, from GM employees to Uber drivers to underpaid schoolteachers. Their fight to take power back is crucial for America's future, and Greenhouse proposes concrete, feasible ways in which workers' collective power can be--and is being--rekindled and reimagined in the twenty-first century.

Beaten Down, Worked Up
is a stirring and essential look at labor in America, poised as it is between the tumultuous struggles of the past and the vital, hopeful struggles ahead.

A PBS NewsHour Now Read This Book Club Pick
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781101874431ISBN-10:1101874430UPC:9781101874431Book Category:Business & Economics, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Labor, Labor & Industrial Relations, Social Classes & Economic DisparitySize:9.40 x 6.50 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.6314Product ID:SC67WEJAMY
STEVEN GREENHOUSE was a reporter for The New York Times from 1983 to 2014 and covered labor and the workplace for nineteen years there. He also served as a business and economics reporter and a diplomatic and foreign correspondent. He has been honored with the Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club award, a New York Press Club award, a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Reporting, and the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism for his last book, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

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