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Cut Loose : Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy, Paperback / softback Book

Cut Loose : Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy Paperback / softback

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Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment.

Cut Loose provides a vivid and moving account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of a historically important group: autoworkers.

Their well-paid jobs on the assembly lines built a strong middle class in the decades after World War II.

But today, they find themselves beleaguered in a changed economy of greater inequality and risk, one that favors the well-educated or well-connected.

Their declining fortunes in recent decades tell us something about what the white-collar workforce should expect to see in the years ahead, as job-killing technologies and the shipping of work overseas take away even more good jobs.

Cut Loose offers a poignant look at how the long-term unemployed struggle in today's unfair economy to support their families, rebuild their lives, and overcome the shame and self-blame they deal with on a daily basis.

It is also a call to action a blueprint for a new kind of politics, one that offers a measure of grace in a society of ruthless advancement.

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