Try to imagine your life in a full-blown European social democracy, especially the German version. Free public goods, a bit of worker control, and whopping trade surpluses? Social democracy doesn’t so
The comic, poignant, one-of-a-kind book that "reads like an enthralling novel" (Studs Terkel). When it first appeared in hardcover, Which Side Are You On? received widespread critical accolades, and
A powerful new argument that right-wing legal policy gives Americans no recourse but to sue one another, by the National Book Critics Circle Award nominee.Since the dawn of the Reagan era, America's
A public interest attorney and best-selling author of Which Side Are You On? looks at America's litigious society as he argues that the conservative revolution helped promote the lawsuit culture, caus
The acclaimed labor lawyer and prizewinning author Thomas Geoghegan asks: where are we better off—America or Europe? In an idiosyncratic, entertaining travelogue that plays on public policy, Ge
Is labor’s day over or is this the big moment? Are unions the logical next step beyond Occupy Wall Street or are they just an anachronism from a bygone era?In Only One Thing Can Save Us, acclaimed aut
Twenty-sixth and Cal is the Cook County criminal court house in Chicago that labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan finds odd and surprising, despite his twenty years of practicing civil law.Geoghegan is accus
"Is labor's day over or is labor the only real answer for our time? In this new book, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan argues that even as organized labor
It's an enduring axiom of political science: before there is democracy, there is rule of law. The pillars of the American legal system, however, are falling apart. And so too, argues Thomas Geoghegan
In this witty combination of memoir and observation, Thomas Geoghegan addresses the widespread cynicism about our government and explores what it means to be a "national" civil servant and a "local" c
American society has grown dramatically more unequal over the past quarter century. The economic gains of American workers after World War II have slowly been eroded ?in partbecause organized labor ha
