Promised Land: The Working Class Struggle for the American Dream

Second Class is a personal, journalistic ethnography of the modern American working class, based on the travels and interactions of the author through the American heartland. It explores the political realignment coming and its potential impact on the American working class. The book features stories of working-class Americans of all races, political orientations, and occupations, sharing their struggles and triumphs and offering policies to improve their lives. It also highlights the emergent class divide in America, where the most basic elements of a secure and stable life are increasingly out of reach for those without a college education. The book argues that for those in power to respect the dignity of work and the American worker, America can once again become the land of opportunity and the promised land where hard work and commitment to family are enough to protect people from poverty.

Format: Hardback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 16 May 2024
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA

A personal, journalistic ethnography of the modern American working class, based on the travels and interactions of the author through the American heartland, is presented in the book Second Class. The author's hope is that a political realignment will work in favor of the American working class, and Batya Ungar-Sargon's book will help lead the way. The book features stories from working-class Americans of all races, political orientations, and occupations, who share their struggles and triumphs in their increasingly precarious lives. It also explores the data and expert opinion on Americas emergent class divide, in which the most basic elements of a secure and stable life are increasingly out of reach for those without a college education. The author argues that America has broken its contract with its laboring class and how to get back to the American Dream.

Weight: 494g
Dimension: 237 x 161 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781641773614