The Working Class Majority:
America's Best Kept Secret
Study Guide

WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
This study guide parallels the chapters in Michael Zweig’s book The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University / ILR Press, 2000). Written by Michael Zweig and Frank Emspak of the School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, this guide is meant to help readers in two ways:

1. the guide highlights the main points of each chapter of the book, section by section, so the reader knows what to look for in the reading;
2. the guide provides questions and exercises that will help readers understand the material and, more important, use the book to explore and better understand the world around them.To use the study guide, just click on the chapter you want to work on. It’s best to use the study guide with the book itself.

Chapter 1. The Class Structure of the United States
Chapter 6. The Working Class and Power