McCallum’s interviews with essential workers and their families — among them, a striking health care worker who won safety and wage concessions from her employer, and the daughter of a Walmart employee who died from COVID — form the book’s empathetic core ... [McCallum] meticulously explains how we got here ... An interesting idea.
Insightful, thought-provoking and peppered with helpful statistics and charts, Essential is both a clarion call to improve the lives of the working class and a primer on how their prosperity--or lack of it--is tied to the fate of all Americans.
Timely follow-up to Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream... A thoughtful consideration of work and the workaday world that brings the class struggle to the fore.
Enlightening analysis ... Interweaving deeply affecting personal stories with whip-smart structural analysis, this is a revealing diagnosis of America’s ills and an invigorating call for change.