5 out of 5 stars...despite her bias, she nails it.
Just like the far Right wrongfully demonizes the word, liberal (liberals are not against business, just want government to regulate it and provide a safety net of social programs), the far Left, epitomized by the author, demonizes the word, neoliberal (originally a balance between free market capitalism and regulation).
That said, the author, in this book, Sleeping Giant, Tamara Draut, I think correctly sees that the Great Recession recovery can only fully recover if it helps the new working class succeed, thus attacking the significant problem, income inequality, and addressing climate change and rebuilding our infrastructure as ways to quickly create high-paying jobs.
Plus, I think the book correctly identifies today's lowest paid working class jobs like fast food, other retail, and caregiver jobs as not unskilled, and thus deserving up to $15/hr + benefits, and sharing jobs having more worker protection. And unions do have a role here.
The book also I think, correctly sees the political split in the US as to how to tackle the hardships faced by the working and erstwhile middle classes.
Ever since the success of the 60's civil rights laws, non-college-educated White men began to feel competition from Black men, followed by competition from more women in the workforce pursuant to the feminist movement, then competition from immigration and the browning of America, culminating with the War on Terror and the Islamophobia which followed.
On the other side, college-educated White men including an overwhelmingly college-educated media sees this diversity being the beneficial evolving history of America.
All told, the author sees this new working class as her Sleeping Giant in powering this economy forward. And already, the Work for $15 and the Black Lives Matter movements seem to have begun raising minimum wages around the country.
I strongly recommend this book, for its timeliness and perceptiveness.
