Death knell for the middle class
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Feb. 12, 2014 \\u2014\\xa0Jake Rosenfeld, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Washington, is the author of \\u201cWhat Unions No Longer Do.\\u201d The book traces the consequences of the decline of the labor movement in the United States \\u2014 for union members and non-members alike. In the interview, we talk with Rosenfeld about some of the deep changes wrought \\u2014 including those affecting wages, the utility of strikes as a weapon for labor, and the influence of workers\\u2019 voices in the political arena \\u2014 and discuss the difficulty of rebuilding the movement.
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