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Also by Tamara Draut Strapped: Why America’s 20- and 30-Somethings Can’t Get Ahead Copyright © 2016 by Tamara Draut All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Limited, Toronto. www.doubleday.com DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. Cover design by John Fontana Cover photograph © Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Via Getty Images Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Draut, Tamara. Sleeping giant : how the new working class will transform America / Tamara Draut.—First Edition. pages cm ISBN 978-0-385-53977-7 (hardcover)—ISBN 978-0-385-53978-4 (ebook) 1. Working class—United States—History—21st century. 2. Diversity in the workplace—United States—History—21st century. 3. United States—Economic conditions—21st century. I. Title. HD8072.5.D73 2016 305.5′620973—dc23 2015034385 eBook ISBN 9780385539784 v4.1 a FOR MY DAD Servants, laborers and workmen of different kinds make up the far ......