Labor Reader (10/30/07)

“’Apollo's Fire’  tells the stories of real people who are working to make the world a better place, stop global warming, and create good union jobs in the process,” reports the Solidarity Center’s Joan Seidman Welsh. The forthcoming book is written by Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Bracken Hendricks, who writes “Clean energy means good jobs and a better future. We're working to engage the search for solutions, and build political will for the investment and policy change that will be needed along the way. There is exciting work going on all around the country, building new industries, creating hope, and changing people's lives." Full disclosure: Hendricks is Seidman Welsh’s son-in-law. “He also used to work at the Working for America Institute and the Committee for America's Future before moving on to fame and fortune,” she adds. Read a book by or about work and/or working people? Let us know! Email us at streetheat@dclaborarchives.org