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UE News looks at Michael Yates’s new book–and how working people can still change the world

Lawrence 1912: The Bread and Roses Strike

Labor activist and painter Ralph Fasanella's 1977 painting, "Lawrence 1912: The Bread and Roses Strike."

Can the Working Class Change the World?
218 pp, $19 pbk, ISBN 978-1-58367-710-0
By Michael D. Yates

Reviewed—along with A History of America in Ten Strikes (Erik Loomis)—by Jonathan Kissam

“If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the problems facing working people on seemingly every front, economist and labor educator Michael Yates has written a timely book. In Can the Working Class Change the World? he makes the case that the working class — and only the working class — can indeed overcome economic inequality, eliminate racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination, and meet the challenge of environmental degradation and climate change….”

Read the review at UE News

Can the Working Class Change the World?

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