Work is literally the measure of our days.
Even in our usually relativistic society, work remains sacrosanct. We find those without jobs to be morally dissolute. With such weighty symbolic baggage attached to work, looking at the laboring lives of Americans can be difficult. Enter The State of Working America . It's filled with the numbers and charts of the dismal science of economics, but the book also presents clear, accessible portraits of the forces that shape the U.S. labor market.