From reviews of the first edition
"Zweig's investigation of politics goes beyond the electoral,
focusing instead on how a broad working-class social movement
(often in alliance with segments of the professional middle class)
could reshape workplace and community power relations as well as
national politics." The Nation
"Those who take (rather than give) orders at work are the
working class; at 62 percent of the labor force, they are a
majority distracted and diverted from its best interests for
several generations. Zweig suggests the implications of this
analysis for a number of key political issues, including the
'underclass, ' 'family values, ' globalization, and what workers
get (and should get) from government. Putting class back on the
table produces a thoughtful, provocative analysis of where the
nation is going and what working people could do about it."
Booklist
"In this pungent critique of class and economics in the United
States part economic theory, part political lecture, and part
reportage of working-class life Zweig offers an insightful, radical
analysis that will make many readers rethink commonly held but
unexamined beliefs. Zweig supports his arguments with statistics,
facts and personal stories and argues with a forcefulness and
conviction backed by a deeply moral sense of the dignity that is
due to each person in their work and workplace." Publishers
Weekly
"Michael Zweig provides us with a much needed discussion of
class in contemporary American society. While students can benefit
from the exposure to a perspective that is currently missing from
the public landscape, union organizers and activists can also
profit from his discussions of worker power and the rebirth of a
democratic social movement among working people." Contemporary
Sociology
In the second edition of his essential book which incorporates
vital new information and new material on immigration, race,
gender, and the social crisis following 2008 Michael Zweig warns
that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of
"middle class" or "consumers," we also allow those with the
dominant power, capitalists, to vanish among the rich. Economic
relations then appear as comparisons of income or lifestyle rather
than as what they truly are contests of power, at work and in the
larger society."
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