Steve greenhouse, thank you so much for coming in to talk about your new book, beaten down, worked up. It was a real pleasure to read it and i look forward to having time to talk to you about it. Guest thank you for your kind words, congressman. Great to speak with you. Host when i think about this book i think of it as having three major parts. After you introduce the situation now you do a really good job, i think, of talking about, through stories about how workers struggled, really they themselves built the middle class in this country to a great extent by organizing, by striking, by bargaining and through diversity and by demanding policy changes and then you go through a lot of the hard times of what i call the reagan era which i think we are still in where companies and starting with the president of the United States really have attacked workers all hot and their unions and then you tell hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organiz
So would i think about this book i see it is really having three major parts. After started you introduce the situation now, you do a really good job icing i think of talking about your stories about how workers struggle, really they themselves let the middle class from this country to a great extent by organizing and by striking and bargaining, for a lot of adversity in my demanding policy changes. And then you go through a lot of the hard times what i call the reagan era which i think we are still in. Where companies and starting with the president of the United States, really attacked or theres a lot in their unions. And then you tell a lot of hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organizing in unions and other forms. And make some policy recommendations. One of the things i had to say is a lot of folks like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendations but i hope we really get into that because you really
Time to talk to about it. Thank you for the kind words it is great to speak with you. When i think of this book i see three major parts per go after you introduce the situation now, you do a really good job of talking about through stories how workers struggle and how they themselves have built the middle class to a great extent by organizin organizing, striking, bargaininh adversity and to demand policy changes. And then you go through the hard times of what i call the reagan era that i think were still in that companies starting with the president of the United States attacked workers a lot and they are unions and to tell a lot of hopeful stories about the creative and innovative ways workers have been organizing and make policy recommendations. A lot of books like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendations because you have made a quite a few interesting suggestions of what could be done to restore the most powerful workers in this country. So lay ou
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To drive out working. People. Youre welcome to the show. After the country gained independence since then its thought 400000 people have been killed it countless number been raped tortured or disappeared and millions of people displaced but few perpetrates. Now. Reports documenting what it calls. To deliver justice although both government and Opposition Forces of comments at. Times im this is says they have no legends meets investigations for cicutto as on courts like independence on blankets immunity has been granted to suspects of crimes im misty is calling on the African Union to set up its own tribunal to investigate crimes in south sudan from on this save mcgonagle joins us from our studio in nairobi hes Deputy Director is the International East africa the horn on the great lakes hello steve thanks for your time now south sudans government says your reports findings does not correspond with the reality in that country what do you say to that well thanks for having me that is real