Book Review: Restoring the American Dream in a High-Risk Economy

Abstract

In the mid-1990s, I wrote a number of articles on rising worker insecurity in the United States. Some were published in academic journals; others—such as a contribution to a USA Today cover feature—were intended to reach a wider audience.1 Then the Internet-driven boom kicked into high gear, obscuring the underlying reality that confronted more and more families each year in the New Economy. Articles on the need for a national strategy to revitalize the American Dream soon became unfashionable.