Reception to follow.

In Conversation:
Richard Trumka, @RichardTrumka
President, AFL-CIO

Robert Kuttner, @rkuttnerwrites
Co-founder and Co-editor of The American Prospect

The AFL-CIO is delighted to host a discussion with President Trumka and Robert Kuttner on Kuttner’s bestselling book, Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?

About the Book:
One of our leading social critics recounts capitalism’s finest hour and shows us how we might achieve it once again.

In the past few decades, the wages of most workers have stagnated, even as productivity increased. Social supports have been cut, while corporations have achieved record profits. Downward mobility has produced political backlash.

What is going on? Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? argues that neither trade nor immigration nor technological change is responsible for the harm to workers’ prospects. According to Robert Kuttner, global capitalism is to blame. By limiting workers’ rights, liberating bankers, allowing corporations to evade taxation and preventing nations from assuring economic security, raw capitalism strikes at the very foundation of a healthy democracy.

About the Author:
Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, is a former columnist for Business Week, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. He holds the Ida and Meyer Kirstein Chair at Brandeis University and lives in Boston.