The inequality reshaping the country goes beyond money and income: the places we work have ever more rigid hierarchies. A "perceptive, informed, and witty utopian thinker" (Michael Kazin, Bookforum), Geoghegan makes his argument for labor with stories, sometimes humorous but more often chilling, about the problems working people like his own clients--from cabdrivers to schoolteachers--face, increasingly powerless in our union-free economy. He explains why a new kind of labor movement (and not just more higher education) is the real program the Democrats should push.

Written "in the disarming style of a self-deprecating lawyer in a beleaguered field" (Kim Phillips-Fein, The Atlantic), Only One Thing Can Save Us is vintage Geoghegan, bearing unparalleled insights into the real dynamics--and human experience--of working in America today.