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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor,Used
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A pageturning book that spans a century of worker strikes.... Engrossing, characterdriven, panoramic. The New York Times Book ReviewWe live in an era of soaring corporate profits and anemic wage gains, one in which lowpaid jobs and blighted bluecollar communities have become a common feature of our nations landscape. Behind these trends lies a littlediscussed problem: the decadeslong decline in worker power.Awardwinning journalist and author Steven Greenhouse guides us through the key episodes and trends in history that are essential to understanding some of our nations 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 Americas future, and Greenhouse proposes concrete, feasible ways in which workers collective power can beand is beingrekindled and reimagined in the twentyfirst 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
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