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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor with Steven Greenhouse
October 6, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm CDT
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The East Side Freedom Library invites you to a conversation about the new book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor, by Steven Greenhouse
Tuesday, October 6, 2020, 7pm
This event will premiere on ESFL’s Facebook page & YouTube channel
Join author Steve Greenhouse and Twin Cities labor leaders Javier Morillo (past president of SEIU Local 26), Cherrene Horazuk (president of AFSCME Local 3800) and Erica Schatzlein (past vice-president of the St. Paul Federation of Educators) for a conversation about his new, widely read book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.
Steve Greenhouse was a reporter for The New York Times from 1983 to 2014 and covered labor and the workplace for nineteen years there. He also served as a business and economics reporter and a diplomatic and foreign correspondent. He has been honored with the Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club award, a New York Press Club award, a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Reporting, and the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism for his last book, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker.
A reviewer in the New York Times Book Review wrote: “Greenhouse probably knows more about what is happening in the American workplace than anybody else in the country. . . He achieves a near-impossible task, producing a page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes, without overcondensing or oversimplifying, and with plausible suggestions for the future. . . Great nonfiction requires great characters, and Greenhouse has the gift of portraiture. He is able to draw a complex, human portrait of a worker with a minimum of words, making the reader greedy for more details, not just about the policies but about the people. And he has both the newspaper writer’s ability to find the one or two individuals whose personal stories exemplify a larger point, and the historian’s ability to make what has already happened seem unlikely.