To look beneath the macroeconomic happy faces of soaring profits, and investigate the lives of American workers in today's economy, Juravich (labor studies, U. of Massachusetts-Amherst) interviewed in
Over the past two decades, Americans have seen their workplaces downsized and streamlined, their jobs out-sourced, sped up, and, all too often, eliminated. Unions have seemed powerless to defend their
Over the past two centuries, Massachusetts workers have fought for many important advances that would later be enjoyed by other Americans. The right to organize, restrictions on work hours and child l