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What Workers Should Know about the Affordability Crisis
Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster
Detailing the long-term effort by the corporate rich to increase their own wealth largely by extracting it from workers’ pockets, Grand Theft Capital argues that the only appropriate response to this class war waged from above is an equally determined class war from below.
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