Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement - Softcover

"History shows that the ideas that grow into legislation need an expansive advocacy to fertilize their bloomwhich is why Geoghegan's book is so useful."
"The New York Times Book Review"
A valuable contribution to current debates about the future of the labor movement. The U.S. labor movement can often be an intellectually bereft place, and Geoghegan deserves a lot of credit for the contributions he's made to combatting its debilitating stolidity.
"Jacobin"
"Contributes passion and knowledge to the work of rebuilding the backbone of American democracythriving workers."
"Minnesota Educator"
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"Wonderful."
David Bensman, "The American Prospect"
"History shows that the ideas that grow into legislation need an expansive advocacy to fertilize their bloomwhich is why Geoghegan's book is so useful."
"The New York Times Book Review"
A valuable contribution to current debates about the future of the labor movement. The U.S. labor movement can often be an intellectually bereft place, and Geoghegan deserves a lot of credit for the contributions he's made to combatting its debilitating stolidity.
"Jacobin"
"Contributes passion and knowledge to the work of rebuilding the backbone of American democracythriving workers."
"Minnesota Educator"
"

"I doubt any writer has suffered longer over the plight of American unions or described their troubles more vividly than Thomas Geoghegan."
--Bookforum

"A fluid writer, Geoghegan devotes the bulk of his engaging book to that famous question: What is to be done?"
--Commonweal Magazine

"Wonderful."
--David Bensman, The American Prospect

"History shows that the ideas that grow into legislation need an expansive advocacy to fertilize their bloom--which is why Geoghegan's book is so useful."
--The New York Times Book Review

"A valuable contribution to current debates about the future of the labor movement. The U.S. labor movement can often be an intellectually bereft place, and Geoghegan deserves a lot of credit for the contributions he's made to combatting its debilitating stolidity."
--Jacobin

"Contributes passion and knowledge to the work of rebuilding the backbone of American democracy--thriving workers."
--Minnesota Educator

"Is labor's day over or is labor the only real answer for our time? In this new book, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan argues that even as organized labor seems to be crumbling, a revived--but different--labormovement is now more relevant than ever in our increasingly unequal society. The inequality reshaping the country goes beyond money and income: the workplace is more authoritarian than ever, and we have even less of a say over our conditions at work. Hetells us stories, sometimes humorous but more often chilling, about problems working people like his own clients--cabdrivers, cashiers, even Chicago public school teachers--now face in our largely union-free economy. He then explains why a new kind of labor movement (and not just more higher education) will be crucial for saving what is left of the middle class; pushing Keynes's original, sometimes forgotten ideas for getting the rich to invest and reduce our balance of trade; and promoting John Dewey's "democratic way of life"--one that would start in the schools and continue in our places of work. A "public policy" book that is compulsively readable, Only One Thing Can Save Us is vintage Geoghegan, blending acerbic and witty commentary with unparalleled insight into the real dynamics (and human experience) of working in America today. "--