Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People: a forty-year investigation, The

Type

Book

Authors

Gantz ( Jeremy Gantz )

ISBN 13

9781786631145

Tags

Income distribution--United States, Middle class--United States, Corporations--United States, Corporations, Income distribution, middle class, class war

Abstract

From the publishers: In These Times magazine has charted a staggering rise in inequality and the fall of the American middle class. Here, in a selection from four decades of articles by investigative reporters and progressive thinkers, is the story of our age. It is a tale of shockingly successful corporate takeovers stretching from Reagan to Trump, but also of brave attempts to turn the tide, from the Seattle global justice protests to Occupy to the Fight for 15. Featuring contributions from Michelle Chen, Noam Chomsky, Tom Geoghegan, Juan Ganzález, David Moberg, Salim Muwakkil, Ralph Nader, Frances Fox Piven, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Slavoj Žižek, and many others.

Description

Donated by Rhonda Rogers. retired Director of the Women's, Human Rights, and Young Workers Department.

Biblio Notes

Editor's introduction / by Jeremy Gantz -- Trading away the working class -- The rich change the rules -- Busted : the decline of unions -- Blowing bubbles : the rise of finance -- Public goods, private hands -- Welcome to the precariat -- Solidarity without borders -- The Black freedom struggle, at the ballot and beyond -- Labor's fate : new solutions to old problems, old solutions to new problems -- After the crash : searching for alternatives

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