Michael Zweig

Michael Zweig, a professor of economics and director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, is the executive producer of the DVD Meeting Face to Face: the Iraq-U.S. Labor Solidarity Tour. His most recent book is What’s Class Got to Do With It?: American Society in the Twenty-first Century.

The War and the Working Class

March 13, 2008

Young people drawn into combat by the "economic draft" are being treated just as poorly as all the other workers in this neoliberal economy.

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