The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy

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In a highly accessible mix of narrative and interviews with social science research, Dodson unearths the untold story of a silent movement for justice in contemporary America. Lisa Dodson spent eight years interviewing more than 800 supervisors, teachers and healthcare workers about their experiences interacting with the working poor. She repeatedly heard accounts of people bending the rules to help workers get by. These stories point to a surprising and inspiring phenomenon of the middle class refusing to be complicit in a fundamentally unfair enconomy.

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Praise for The Moral Underground: 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: What's 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 Women's Health for the state of Massachusetts before becoming a professor of sociology at Boston College. She is the author of The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy (The New Press) and Don't Call Us Out of Name. She lives in Auburndale, Massachusetts.