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How Ordinary Americans Subvert An Unfair Economy
New Press, The
December 2009
On Sale: December 8, 2009
240 pages
ISBN: 1595584722
EAN: 9781595584724
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
I pad their paychecks because you can't live on what they
make. --SUPERVISOR OF A FAST-FOOD PIZZA PLACE Here is a book
that tells the real story of the countless unsung heroes who
bend or break the rules to help those millions of Americans
with impossible schedules, paychecks, and lives. Whether it
is a nurse choosing to treat an uninsured child, a
supervisor deciding to overlook infractions, or a restaurant
manager sneaking food to a worker's children, middle-class
Americans are secretly refusing to be complicit in a
fundamentally unfair system that puts a decent life beyond
the reach of the working poor. In a national tale of a kind
of economic disobedience--told in whispers to Lisa Dodson
over the course of eight years of research across the
country--hundreds of supervisors, teachers, and health care
professionals describe intentional acts of defiance that
together tell the story of a quiet revolt, of a moral
underground that has grown in response to an immoral
economy. A hugely important book, as hopeful as it is
searing and with profound implications, The Moral
Underground combines narratives and social research to
document a whole new phenomenon--people reaching across
America's economic fault line--and provides a missing
national account of the human consequences and lives behind
the business-page headlines.
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