The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret

This book was a required read for my English class. It is an interesting book, but I disagreed with many of his statements. He puts down capitalists in every way that he can. It does make you think about things, but as a conservative, I disagreed with his viewpoints.

Good book

The book itself is great. The problem lies with the ebook registering over 5000 pages. If you are getting this book for school be aware that if your professor assigns page numbers to read, instead of chapters, you will need to borrow someone's book and make note of your start to finish points. That would be fairly easy if the 5000 pages were in order but the page numbers jump up randomly. Example: if you're reading page 200 and click next, it jumps to page number 210. It doesn't skip pages, just numbers. I've tried reading the book on an iPhone, kindle fire, laptop, desktop, and a surface pro tablet with the same results.

great book

Great book.

IT CAME ON TIME, BUT THERE ARE MISSING PAGES, NOT AS DESCRIBED IN DESCRIPTION, I WAS MISSING RANDOM PAGES THROUGHOUT THE BOOK...

Don't waste your money on this book. It was a assigned for a class and is lacking in a fair representation of society because it is a one-sided argument the whole way through. Zweig belabors his ideas only and does not allow you to weigh the facts yourself: therefore it is nothing short of propaganda. The whole book attacks the capitalist class - those who have power over the working class - and does not fairly represent the social factors surrounding the capitalist class. According to him the capitalist class are vultures responsible for the woes of the working class and this country. Be is as it may, this view is very controversial and conjecture because a capitalist can be under the poverty line as long as they oversee an employee. To Zweig, classes are all about power relations, not money. It is an interesting analysis, but money does play a role in classes which should not be avoided. Furthermore, money is such a focal point of economics that it is a crime that he doesn't have consider it relevant in class structure. Zweig says, a person who makes $250,000 is working class if and only if he has a boss and does not have underlings he oversees. Obviously most people have bosses, which makes most people working class which is a flaw in his assessment because under his analysis almost everyone is working class, but we have different cultures. Furthermore, class is also an assessment of culture and behavior that is afforded through money which is why money is important in the assessment. In class assessment, he only argues on the basis of social power, but how about buying power? Of course buying power is important in class as well, but he spins this fact around by saying the capitalist class is sapping the working class out of their marginal product or what they add to production - a very socialist approach and idea. To the equal and opposite, Zweig says that a small business owner who is being sapped by taxes and rising prices is a capitalist because he hires and has power over people. However, the person making $250,000 has a more capitalist culture while the person making $30,000 has a working class culture. Not worth the read. Buy a more balanced and informed book that allows you to weight the information yourself. The voice is lacking and sounds like it is coming from a heartless person. No animation in the voice behind this manifesto. You are better off reading something else.