“In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it's not surprising that this generation of youthful protesters has a different focus for their grievances: the economy, stupid. But notice the targets they've chosen to demonize. It's all about class, not age. It's 1% versus 99%, not young versus old. Occupy Wall Street, not Occupy Leisure World.” AgeClassEconomyEconomicsLaborAgingEmploymentAmerican DreamUnemploymentPublic PolicyClass StruggleBoomersOccupy Wall StreetAge DifferenceMillenialsOccupyLabor ActivismProtestersBaby Boomers99 Percent1 PercentLaboring ClassWorking Class America Book:The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown Source: The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
“The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play.” InjusticeInequalityChild LaborLaboring Class Author:Sarah N. Cleghorn
“The occupants of the other three looked like the people they had seen rioting in the streets of Paris that morning. They were citizens of the other France, the France one didn’t read about in guidebooks. They were the put-upon and the left-behind, the ones without glittering degrees from elite institutions of learning. Globalization and automation had eroded their value in the workforce. The service economy was their only option. Their counterparts in Britain and America had already had their say at the ballot box. France, reckoned Gabriel, would be next.” Working ClassBlue CollarAutomationLaboring ClassThe Poor Get Poorer Book:The New Girl Source: The New Girl