http://www.inthesetimes.com/archives/tags/workers/ In These Times features award-winning investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international affairs, and sharp cultural criticism about events and ideas that matter. en-us Expression Engine jessica@inthesetimes.com seamus@inthesetimes.com Fri, 23 May 2008 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3690/main_street_squeeze/ Pick your metaphor for the current state of American workers: Are they squeezed? Caught? Crunched? Three new books -- by two top-notch national journalists and a leading progressive economist -- exploit these images to convey how average Americans are losing out in today's economy. And despite varied but overlapping prescriptions for new policies, none of the three offers an easy way out. In The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker (Knopf, 2008), New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse pulls together some key statistics and compelling personal stories to depict the "broad decline in the status and treatment of American workers," blue- and white-collar alike, over the past three decades. Growing inequality costs workers dearly. For example, if… inequity workers jobs economy Susan J. Douglas