Meet Les Leopold. We talk about his latest book Wall Streets War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What To Do About It. He was on earlier in the year but it was a short we picked up from his time with the Labor Radio Podcast Network. This time we spend a solid 45 plus minutes talking about his amazing perspective on this important Working Families issue; Mass Layoffs! Les also has some great dispatches and writings on his Substack Page You can also find him on some links below and he has several previously published books, we link them here as well.. We talk about Mike Lux and his writing "Factory Towns" which can be found at this link from the website Amarican Family Voices.org
On SubStack find him as Les Leopold
On Twitter Les can be found as @Les_Leopold
The Book is published by Chelsea Green Publishing in The UK
The links to his book, and others he has published are from Powell"s Books in OR. It is a Union Shop and the employees handeling your book order are represented by ILUW Local 5 in Portland OR. Listed here are the Les Leopold books they carry for sale.
Wall Streets War On Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed are Destroying The Working Class and What To Do About It.
Runaway Inequality: An Activists Guide to Economic Justice
The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor The Life and Times of Tony Mazzochi
How To Make A Million Dollars An Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away With Siphoning Off America's Wealth
The Looting Of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity-And What We Can Do About It.
Defiant German, Defiant Jew: A Holocost Memoir from Inside the Third Reich
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