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Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America
Written by Tamara Draut
Narrated by Tanya Eby
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There was a time when America's working class was seen as the backbone of the American economy, having considerable political, economic, and moral authority. But the working class we have now has been marginalized, if not ignored, by politicians and pundits. This is changing, swiftly and dramatically. #160; Today's working class is a sleeping giant. And as Tamara Draut makes abundantly clear, it is just now waking up to its untapped political power.#160;Sleeping Giant#160;is the first major examination of the new working class and the role it will play in our economic and political future. Blending moving individual narratives, historical background, and sophisticated analysis, Draut forcefully argues that this newly energized class is far along in the process of changing America for the better. Draut examines the legacy of exclusion based on race and gender that contributes to the invisibility of the new working class, despite their entwinement in everyone's day-to-day life. No longer confined to the assembly line, today's working class watches our children and cares for our parents. They park our cars, screen our luggage, clean our offices, and cook and serve our meals. They are us.#160;
Editor's Note
Labor Day…
As the middle class shrinks, the fight for a $15 minimum wage has reenergized the modern labor movement. Find out what the new middle class has thrown its mighty weight behind, from the Fight for Fifteen and beyond.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent -A good discourse on the working class, who is part of it and how they got there and what has caused it.