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Tamara Draut + Joy Reid

Demos and Strand Books invite you to a timely and lively discussion between Demos’ Tamara Draut, author of the new book Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America, and MSNBC national correspondent Joy Reid.

Draut and Reid will discuss the struggles, politics and burgeoning power of the new working class. With an eye towards our upcoming presidential election, and it’s impact on America’s working families, Draut and Reid will explore how these fearless workers are shifting the political landscape.

Sleeping Giant is the first major examination of the new working class and the role it will play in our economic and political future. The book explores how the new working class — both more female and more racially diverse than its predecessors — faces major obstacles and opportunities in reclaiming the political power that defined the industrial working class. The stakes are high: Restoring the political and economic power of today’s working class, Draut argues, is the best path to securing all of our economic futures. Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, called the book a “thorough and lively report on the ‘new working class’ that inhabits our ‘bargain basement economy.’”











When: Tue., Apr. 5, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: The Strand
828 Broadway
212-473-1452
Price: Buy a copy of Sleeping Giant or a $15 gift card to attend this event.
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Demos and Strand Books invite you to a timely and lively discussion between Demos’ Tamara Draut, author of the new book Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America, and MSNBC national correspondent Joy Reid.

Draut and Reid will discuss the struggles, politics and burgeoning power of the new working class. With an eye towards our upcoming presidential election, and it’s impact on America’s working families, Draut and Reid will explore how these fearless workers are shifting the political landscape.

Sleeping Giant is the first major examination of the new working class and the role it will play in our economic and political future. The book explores how the new working class — both more female and more racially diverse than its predecessors — faces major obstacles and opportunities in reclaiming the political power that defined the industrial working class. The stakes are high: Restoring the political and economic power of today’s working class, Draut argues, is the best path to securing all of our economic futures. Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, called the book a “thorough and lively report on the ‘new working class’ that inhabits our ‘bargain basement economy.’”

Buy tickets/get more info now