Why Don't Barack Obama and John McCain Talk About the Working Class?

We’re also joined here in New York by labor and workplace reporter for the New York Times, Steven Greenhouse. His latest book is called “The Big Squeeze, Tough Times for the American Worker.”

And labor journalist Steve Early is still with us from Boston.

Michael Zweig, Professor of economics and director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His most recent book is What’s Class Got to Do with It?: American Society in the Twenty-First Century.

Steven Greenhouse, labor and workplace reporter for the New York Times, and author of the new book The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker.

Steve Early, Boston-based labor journalist and the author of a forthcoming book for Monthly Review Press called Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home. For twenty-seven years, he was an organizer for the Communications Workers of America.

Related Links

• Center for Study of Working Class Life
• Report: Economic Stimulus and Economically Distressed Workers

Related Democracy Now! Stories

• The Big Squeeze: Steven Greenhouse on Tough Times for the American Worker (7/29/2008)