The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy

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Called a fascinating exploration of economic civil disobedience by Publishers Weekly, Lisa Dodsons stunning book The Moral Underground features stories of middle-class managers and professionals who refuse to be complicit in an economy that puts a decent life beyond the reach of the working poor. Whether its a nurse choosing to treat an uninsured child, a supervisor padding a paycheck, or a restaurant manager sneaking food to a workers children, these unsung heroes reach across the economic fault line to restore a sense of justice to the working world.

This vivid account of working-class America is based on Dodsons eight years of research and conversations with hundreds of Americans about the need to create ethical alternatives to rules that ignore the humanity of working parents and put their children and risk.

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Lisa Dodson tracks a new civil disobedience [with] fascinating wrenching stories.
The Boston Globe

If only this book had been published in 2007.Then the hundreds of people interviewed by Lisa Dodson would have been able to pass along an important piece of advice: Whats good for business is not necessarily good for America.
Time

Important, encouraging reporting.
Kirkus

[A]n intriguing record of the economic crisis and how some are choosing to survive it.
Booklist

Highly recommended.
Choice

The documentary tradition at its very best.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Coles

Author Bio

Lisa Dodson worked as a union activist, an obstetrical nurse, and the director of the Division of Womens Health for the state of Massachusetts before becoming a professor of sociology at Boston College. The author of Dont Call Us Out of Name, she lives in Auburndale, Massachusetts.