Author Steven Greenhouse is speaking at the Economic Policy Institute.
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Visit epi.org at 12:30 p.m. EST to watch the livestream for Beaten Down, Worked Up with Steven Greenhouse. ([link removed][UNIQID])
The Economic Policy Institute is excited to welcome former New York Times journalist Steven Greenhouse for a talk and discussion about his new book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor ([link removed][UNIQID]) .
Greenhouse chronicles the rise of unions in the United States, including all the progress they have managed to secure for workers over American history. He also examines how the decline of unions and worker power more broadly fueled wage stagnation, increased income inequality, and skewed our system so that corporate America has gained far too much sway over our politics and policymaking.
The author explores models for rebuilding worker power, including the #RedforEd teachers strikes, the Fight for $15, and bargaining for the common good.
“In no other industrial nation do employers fight so hard to defeat, indeed quash, labor unions,” Greenhouse writes. He argues that we need a strong workers’ movement “to serve as a countervailing force to corporate power.”
Heidi Shierholz, EPI’s director of policy, will introduce Greenhouse and moderate the discussion that follows, which will include time for questions from the audience.
Visit epi.org at 12:30 p.m. EST to watch the livestream of the event. ([link removed][UNIQID])
What: Book talk on Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor ([link removed][UNIQID])
Who: Steven Greenhouse, former reporter, The New York Times
Heidi Shierholz, director of policy, Economic Policy Institute
When: Monday, September 9
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m. Eastern
Where: Economic Policy Institute
Watch the Livestream ([link removed][UNIQID])
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