The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker

Steven Greenhouse of The New York Times is the nation’s most authoritative reporter on labor and employment issues. For 15 years his investigative exposes have probed the way some of the nation’s largest corporations treat and mistreat their workers, from the Brooklyn waterfront to the Piedmont South, and from Toyota assembly lines to Wal-Mart check-out counters. His first book, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, is an eye-opening account of how the corporate clamp-down on wages, benefits, and job security has made efforts to climb out of the current economic crisis all the more difficult.
Greenhouse comes to UCSB as the Regents’ Lecturer in History.

Sponsored by the Department of History, the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, and UCSB Arts & Lectures.

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