99% Perspiration by Adam Chandler
YPGS - Book Club
Welcome to You’re Probably Getting Screwed, a weekly newsletter and video series from J.D. Scholten and Justin Stofferahn about the Second Gilded Age and the ways economic concentration is putting politics and profits over working people.
Book Club!!!
April’s book is “99% Perspiration” by journalist Adam Chandler who writes The Crunchwrap.
Here’s our conversation:
You can purchase 99% Perspiration here but Adam also encourages people to request the book from your local library.
I would also recommend checking out this piece Adam wrote in the LA Times about the crisis of work in America, which is adapted from his book.
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Justin Stofferahn
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1. Supporing libraries and authors. Asked my public library to purchase the book. Given cuts to libraries, I plan to buy the book for the library. Should advocacy groups promote this as a way to support libraries and highlight threats to our libraries? Especially hard on rural libraries.
2. Work wages and conditions as political issues. On a political note, why haven't Democrats and advocacy groups pushed harder or more visibly to raise minimum wage, worker safety and health protections, job training, etc,? Why hasn't these or 'better' worker issues made it to state and national campaigns?