Steven Greenhouse, "Beaten Down, Worked Up"

Steven Greenhouse discusses his book, "Beaten Down, Worked Up", at Politics and Prose.

In his new book, Greenhouse, an award-winning journalist who spent nearly twenty years covering labor and the workplace for The New York Times, traces today’s blight of wage stagnation, income inequality, gender-pay gaps, and a host of other social and political problems directly to the long decline of worker power. His eloquent defense of worker groups looks back to landmark achievements by labor unions as well as documenting the activities of the working class today; from hotel housekeepers to G.M. laborers to Uber drivers, Greenhouse shows the concrete ways workers are organizing and reclaiming their collective power.

STEVEN GREENHOUSE was a reporter for The New York Times from 1983 to 2014 and covered labor and the workplace for nineteen years there. He also served as a business and economics reporter and a diplomatic and foreign correspondent. He has been honored with the Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club award, a New York Press Club award, a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Reporting, and the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism for his last book, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker.

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