America Needs a Raise

The new president of the AFL-CIO offers his manifesto: a blunt yet compassionate account of the dilemmas facing American workers of all kinds--high tech and low, immigrant and native born, blue collar and white. As he presents a visionary plan to reverse the growing insecurity and inequality of American life, Sweeney targets the growing disparity between rich and poor, the racial polarization and ethnic animosity, and indicts corporate America for its "lean and mean" abdication of social responsibility.