Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform

Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America

There was a time when Americaâ€™s working class was seen as the backbone of the American economy, having considerable political, economic, and moral authority. But the working class we have nowâ€”far more female and racially diverse and employed by the fast food, retail, health care, and other service industriesâ€”has been marginalized, if not ignored, by politicians and pundits. This is changing, swiftly and dramatically. Â

Todayâ€™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 everyoneâ€™s day-to-day life. No longer confined to the assembly line, todayâ€™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.Â

With â€œFight for $15â€ 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, todayâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Doubleday
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780385539777
ReleaseDate 2016-04-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385539777

Country	USA
Brand	Doubleday
Manufacturer	Doubleday
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780385539777
ReleaseDate	2016-04-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780385539777

Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America

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