The Betrayal of Work, How Low-wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans And Their Families

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Following its publication in hardbound, the seriously acclaimed Betrayal of Work turned into one of the most prominent policy books about financial life in America; it was gone over in the pages of Newsweek, Company Week, Fortune, the Washington Post, Newsday, and U.S.A. Today, along with in public law journals and in broadcast interviews, consisting of an one-on-one with Bill Moyers on PBS’s NOW. The American Possibility’s James K. Galbraith’s appreciation was normal: “Shulman’s slim and stylish book is a model mix of engaging portraiture, good sense, and understated conviction.” Beth Shulman’s strongly argued book provides a full program to deal with the injustice faced by the 30 million Americans who work full-time but do not earn a living wage. As the influential Harvard Company School newsletter put it, Shulman “specifically lays out how structural modifications in the economy may be attained, thus expanding chances for all Americans.” This edition consists of a brand-new afterword that intervenes in the post-election dispute by arguing that low-wage work is an immediate ethical issue of our time.

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