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Also by Tamara Draut
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Copyright © 2016 by Tamara Draut
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Limited, Toronto.
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Cover design by John Fontana
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Draut, Tamara.
Sleeping giant : how the new working class will transform America / Tamara
Draut.—First Edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-385-53977-7 (hardcover)—ISBN 978-0-385-53978-4 (ebook)
1. Working class—United States—History—21st century. 2. Diversity in the workplace—United States—History—21st century. 3. United States—Economic conditions—21st century. I. Title.
HD8072.5.D73 2016
305.5′620973—dc23     2015034385
eBook ISBN 9780385539784
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FOR MY DAD
Servants, laborers and workmen of different kinds make up the far greater part of every political society. But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.
—Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Contents
Cover
Also by Tamara Draut
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
CHAPTER ONEThe Bargain-Basement Economy
CHAPTER TWOThe New Indignity of Work
CHAPTER THREEMeet the New Populists
CHAPTER FOURThe Great Power Shift
CHAPTER FIVEThe Legacy of Exclusion
CHAPTER SIXThe Privilege of Visibility
CHAPTER SEVENThe Sleeping Giant Stirs
CHAPTER EIGHTA Better Deal
The Blueprint for a Better Deal
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
Introduction
My father died a few short months after the city of Detroit declared bankruptcy. He was a steelworker, the epitome of the person you likely conjure up when you hear someone described as “working class.” White, male, hard hat and lunch pail, steel-toed boots, and a dark blue uniform he’d bring home at the end of every shift and promptly throw in the washing machine. The earthy, ............

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