Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor

From The Long-Time New York Times Lab Or Correspondent, An In-Depth Look At Working Men And Women In America, The Challenges They Face, And How They Can Be Re-Empowered In An Era When Corporate Profits Have Soared While Wages Have Flatlined, Millions Of Americans Are Searching For Ways To Improve Their Lives, And TheyRe Often Turning To Lab Or Unions And Worker Action, Whether #Red For Ed Teachers Strikes Or The Fight For $15. Wage Stagnation, Low-Wage Work, And Blighted Blue-Collar Communities Have Become An All-Too-Common Part Of Modern-Day America, And Behind These Trends Is A Little-Discussed Problem: The Decades-Long Decline In Worker Power. Steven Greenhouse Sees This Decline Reflected In Some Of The Most Pressing Problems Facing Our Nation Today, Including Income Inequality, Declining Social Mobility, The Gender Pay Gap, And The Concentration Of Political Power In The Hands Of The Wealthy. He Rebuts The Often-Stated View That Lab Or Unions Are Outmoded-Orr Even Harmful-Byy Recounting Some Of LabourS Victories, And The Efforts Of Several Of TodayS Most Innovative And Successful Worker Groups. He Shows Us The Modern Lab Or Landscape Through The Stories Of Dozens Of American Workers, From Br>Gm. Workers To User Drivers, And We See How Unions Historically Have Empowered-Andd Lifted-Thee Most Marginalised, Including Young Women Garment Workers In New York In 1909, Black Sanitation Workers In Memphis In 1968, And Hotel Housekeepers Today. Greenhouse Proposes Concrete, Feasible Ways In Which Workers Collective Power Can Be-Andd Is Being-Rekindledd And Imagined In The Twenty-First Century.