Description: Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol provide timely insight into the relationship between the decline of unions and the shift of working-class voters away from Democrats.
Review Quotes: How refreshing to read a challenging account of how and why the Democratic Party lost a major constituency that attends to the people themselves, their communities, their organizations, and their struggles to make meaning of a politics that ceased to see them, hear them, or value them--to even respect them. For once, the authors enable us to hear the voices of human beings--not data points, utility functions, ideological categories, or labels. This work challenges us to focus on what a real constituency is--not a 'base' to be managed, but people who learn to stand together, work together, decide together, and act together.--Marshall Ganz, Harvard Kennedy School