Sleeping Giant

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Tamara Draut

Vice President of Policy and Research at Demos and the author of Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead.

"Read Sleeping Giant. It is raw. It is honest. And it is powerful. It is about the conversation we need to have in this country."

— Senator Elizabeth Warren

Press Releases

New Book Sleeping Giant Offers Blueprint to Dismantle Racial and Gender Inequities and Revive the Working Class

Press for Sleeping Giant

AUTHOR OP-ED

Quartz

As US politicians romanticize doomed manufacturing jobs, the new working class is suffering

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Forbes

Where To Find the Best 'Smart' Jobs

AUTHOR OP-ED

Moyers & Company

America’s New Working Class Demands Respect

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Fast Company

Dream Job Alert: Cheap Taco Truck For Sale In Gorgeous Tulum, Mexico

AUTHOR INTERVIEW

US News & World Report

America's New Working Class

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What is the Sleeping Giant?

Today’s working class is a sleeping giant. And as Tamara Draut makes abundantly clear, it is just now waking up to its untapped political power. Sleeping Giant is the first major examination of the new working class and the role it will play in our economic and political future. Blending moving individual narratives, historical background, and sophisticated analysis, Draut forcefully argues that this newly energized class is far along in the process of changing America for the better.

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