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Sleeping Giant: The Untapped Economic and Political Power of America's New Working Class

Sleeping Giant: The Untapped Economic and Political Power of America's New Working Class

Draut, Tamara
Draut, Tamara

Paperback

Labor21st Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 110187306X
ISBN13: 9781101873069
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Apr 17 2018
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
REVISED AND UPDATED WITH A NEW PREFACE

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. Sleeping Giant 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.

With Fight for $15 minimum-wage protests popping up throughout the country (and in some places winning) and economic inequality being recognized as one of the defining issues of our time, today's working class will soon become impossible to ignore and foolish to dismiss. Sleeping Giant is the first book to tell the story of this extraordinary transformation in full and inspiring detail.

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