"Productivity has increased dramatically, but working people have experienced a bitter twist: owing largely to the waning power of organized labor, real wages have been stagnant and hours at the office have only lengthened.

The nation seems uniquely prepared for a new debate about value and desert.

Late in this new gilded age, a devalued and depressed American public may be ready to demand more.."

to read Mark Engler's review published in: The Nation, December 2008, click on
www.thenation.com/doc/20081215/engler