Thomas Geoghegan
Is laborâ€™s day over or is labor the only real answer for our time? In his new book, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan argues that even as organized labor seems to be crumbling, a revivedâ€”but differentâ€”labor movement is the only way to stabilize the economy and save the middle class.,But the inequality now reshaping the country goes beyond money and income: the places we work have become ever more rigid hierarchies. Geoghegan makes his argument for labor with stories, sometimes humorous but more often chilling, about the problems working people like his own clientsâ€”from cabdrivers to schoolteachersâ€”now face, increasingly powerless in our union-free economy. He explains why a new kind of labor movement (and not just more higher education) is the real program the Democrats should pushâ€”not just to save the middle class from bankruptcy but to revive Keynesâ€™s original and sometimes forgotten ideas for getting the rich to invest and reducing our balance of trade, and to promote John Deweyâ€™s vision of a â€œdemocratic way of life,â€ one that would start in the schools and continue in our places of work.,A â€œpublic policyâ€ book that is compulsively readable, ,Only One Thing Can Save Us, is vintage Geoghegan, blending acerbic, witty commentary with unparalleled insight into the real dynamics (and human experience) of working in America today.
Labor,Nonfiction,Politics,Economics
Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement