Runaway inequality : an activist's guide to economic justice

ISBN: 0692436308
ISBN: 9780692436301
Physical Description: 314 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm print
Publisher: New York, NY : Labor Institute Press, [2015]

Summary: "Using easy-to-understand charts and graphs, Runaway Inequality explains the process by which corporation after corporation falls victim to systematic wealth extraction by banks, private equity firms, and hedge funds. It reveals how financial strip-mining puts enormous downward pressure on jobs, wages, benefits, and working conditions, while boosting the incomes of financial elites. But Runaway Inequality does more than make sense of our economic plight. It also shows why virtually all the key issues that we face--from climate change to the exploding prison population--are intimately connected to rising economic inequality. Most importantly, Runaway Inequality calls upon us to build a common movement to tackle the sources of increasing income and wealth inequality." --