War on the Working Class? Watch Tonight!

NOW with Bill Moyers - Class in America PBS Channel 13 Friday, October 22, 2004, 8:30pm (in New York City) check for listingsnationwide on www.pbs.org/now/

Rebroadcast on Sunday, October 24th, 11pm For the first time, a frank discussion on class warfare and it'simplications on domestic issues and the war in Iraq.

Are changes in labor laws, tax law enforcement, and the war in Iraq all offensives in a class war on working Americans? Bill Moyers sits down with Michael Zweig for a look at policy changes, he says, are designed to serve big business and the corporate elites at the expense of America's working class.

Zweig is Professor of Economics and founder of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook(www.workingclass.sunysb.edu). He is the author of, THE WORKING CLASSMAJORITY: AMERICA'S BEST KEPT SECRET (2000, Cornell University Press), andis editor of WHAT'S CLASS GOT TO DO WITH IT? AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THETWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (2004, Cornell University Press).