LOVE THE WORK, HATE THE JOB Why America’s Best Workers Are More Unhappy Than Ever

In his intelligent narration of this sociological analysis, Tom Weiner enlivens events that contributed to the evolution of the white-collar labor movement. America's most talented workers want to do their best for their employers, argues Kusnet, a former speech writer in the Clinton administration, but they’re often hampered by short-sighted corporate policies. Weiner's crisp delivery enhances the author's role as historian of the last several decades of decline in worker satisfaction, as evidenced by attempts to organize Microsoft's tech workers and Boeing's 2000 engineers' strike. As narrator, Weiner handles what may have been actual discussions and speeches well, but he tends to make the male speakers sound more pugnacious than the text implies. R.M. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2008]