The Chicago Labor Education Program at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, the Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies, and Interfaith Worker Justice cordially invite you to join us for a panel discussion on the new book
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
by New York Times labor and workplace reporter
Steven Greenhouse
Friday May 2
4:00pm
University of Illinois - Chicago
Student Center East, Room 302
750 S. Halsted
with
Nancy MacLean
Professor of History, Northwestern University
Author of Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
David Moberg
Senior Editor, In These Times
Kim Bobo
Executive Director, Interfaith Worker Justice
Prexy Nesbitt
Activist and Educator
“Steven Greenhouse's brilliant and vividly reported exposé shows how employers have been squeezing the life out of American workers, through means both legal and illegal. My blood boiled when I read The Big Squeeze. Any presidential candidate—or voter—who overlooks this book will be clueless about what's really going on in America.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich
“In this shocking and important book, Steven Greenhouse explains—and tells the stories—of how U.S. workers are paying the price for the lower labor standards and wages that are the result of poorly-managed globalization”
—Joseph E. Stiglitz
“Steve Greenhouse has written the essential economic book for 2008. Long before most analysts noticed the downturn, Greenhouse was reporting how troubled our economy looked from the bottom-up. A hugely talented reporter with a passion for justice, a shrewd student of the new economy and a brilliant guide to the contemporary labor movement, Greehouse writes with clarity, energy and grace.”
—E. J. Dionne Jr.
Copies of the book will be available for sale.
