HOUR ONE

When he began poking around America's workplaces as the labor correspondent for the New York Times, Steven Greenhouse says he was taken aback by what he found --- "squalid treatment, humbling indignities, relentless penny pinching."  Greenhouse examines the decline in the status and treatment of American workers in his book, The Big Squeeze.

 

Bob talks to journalist Philip Dine about what happened to American organized labor and what can be done to restore its role as the defender of middle-class values and economic well being.  Dine's book is State of the Unions: How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class, Improve Our Economy, and Regain Political Influence.

 

HOUR TWO

Peter, Paul & Mary sounded better than Peter, Noel & Mary.  But Noel or Paul, it's the same guy.  Noel Paul Stookey talks about being in the middle of the 60’s folk music movement and brings along recordings of the ten finalists from last June’s MUSIC TO LIFE 2008 songwriting contest.