The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret.

The Progressive | September 1, 2000| | Copyright

The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret by Michael Zweig Cornell University. 198 pages. $25.00.

Although the idea of class has typically been the skunk in e garden party of American politics, growth in income inequality and persistent Republican catering to the rich--such as the attempt to repeal the estate tax--have recently given notions of class more prominence and legitimacy. Nevertheless, there is still little acknowledgment that in America the majority of people are part of a working class, or that political parties ought to take their needs ...

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