Summary/Review of The Surplus American: How the 1% is Making us Redundant
INTRODUCTION
Written by Charles Derber, a Professor of Sociology at Boston College, and Yale R. Magrass, a Chancellor Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, The Surplus American: How the 1% is Making US Redundant traces the etiology and developments that have contributed to the social dissolution experienced by Americans who have been left unemployed and seemingly redundant. This work discusses how “surplus people” have created a protracted crisis that is far more trenchant that the ubiquitous joblessness. Derber & Magrass (2012) identifies the main groups of people considered a part of this surplus population, which included retirees, the
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