Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement

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Is The Labour Party's day over or is this the big moment Are unions the logical next step beyond the Occupy Movement, or are they just an anachronism from a bygone era In Only One Thing Can Save Us, acclaimed author Thomas Geoghegan asserts that only a new kind of labour movement can help us switch course toward a future that is fair and prosperous for all people.

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"I doubt any writer has suffered longer over the plight of American unions or described their troubles more vividly than Thomas Geoghegan.
Bookforum

"A fluid writer, Geoghegan devotes the bulk of his engaging book to that famous question: What is to be done"
Commonweal Magazine

"Wonderful."
David Bensman, The American Prospect

"History shows that the ideas that grow into legislation need an expansive advocacy to fertilize their bloomwhich is why Geoghegan's book is so useful."
The New York Times Book Review

A valuable contribution to current debates about the future of the labor movement. The U.S. labor movement can often be an intellectually bereft place, and Geoghegan deserves a lot of credit for the contributions he's made to combatting its debilitating stolidity.
Jacobin

"Contributes passion and knowledge to the work of rebuilding the backbone of American democracythriving workers."
Minnesota Educator

Author Bio

Thomas Geoghegan is a practicing attorney and the author of several books, including In Americas Court, Which Side Are You On, See You in Court, and Were You Born on the Wrong Continent, all published by The New Press. He has written for The Nation, the New York Times, and Harpers. He lives in Chicago.