The Big Squeeze

In this summary you will learn

• Why American workers are suffering
• What factors led to their current predicament
• What can be done to improve their situation

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Why you should read The Big Squeeze

A perfect storm is battering the American worker. Blue-collar and white-collar jobs are moving overseas while America’s economy lags and its immigrant population expands. Given the quality of this report, getAbstract surmises that few individuals are more suited to address this precarious situation than Steven Greenhouse, who has covered workplace issues for The New York Times since 1995. Writing with clarity and simplicity, Greenhouse illustrates the plight of the American worker with first-hand accounts of mistreatment and misfortune. He offers some solutions at the end of the book, but he finds only a few patches of optimism in the bleak landscape he portrays so capably.

About the Author

Steven Greenhouse has covered labor and workplace issues for The New York Times since 1995.