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99% Perspiration
99% Perspiration looks at the culture of work in American life and how our obsession with work influences culture, policy, and everyday life, all at the expense of the greater good.
As the wealth gap widens, communities crumble, and Americans work more for less, Chandler crisscrosses the country interviewing mayors, teachers, generals, pastors, construction workers, and entrepreneurs to create a portrait of an America at war with itself over opportunity and the future.
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Early Praise
“An intriguing and intelligent look at work in the United States, Adam Chandler has brought his humor and grace to an array of issues from stagnating wages to the hustle economy. Chandler has an uncanny ability to present deep histories of inequality, paint absorbing contemporary portraits of workers, and raise provocative questions about our cultural and social myths about working. An ode to anyone who has struggled to make ends meet or to find meaning from work, this book reminds us that another (work) world is possible!”
—DR. MARCIA CHATELAIN, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise
“Adam Chandler’s 99% Perspiration is a wickedly smart and even hilarious takedown of the mythology of the American Dream. In an age of uncertainty and inequality, this is a necessary book.
—DEREK THOMPSON, author of On Work and Hit Makers
“With relentless shoe-leather reporting, incisive analysis, and mordant humor, Adam Chandler has pierced the balloon of some very cherished myths about America's workplace exceptionalism.”
—SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN, author of Into the Bright Sunshine