We plan to market this title extensively in the fields of labor history and sociology specifically, including advertising in important labor history, American history, and sociology journals; exhibiting at academic conferences, and advertising through listserves and websites important to the disciplines. Given the subject of the book's close parallels to the contemporary economic situation, we also think this title can reach a general readership. We will print and web advertise in a number of progressive publications, as well as in important magazines and journals that reach a scholarly audience.

From the Roaring Twenties through to the Great Depression, Irving Bernstein presents a comprehensive history of the American workforce. The Lean Years is the first instalment of Bernstein's critically acclaimed trilogy on the American labour movement which charts how the New Deal and labour unions preserved democracy and capitalism at a time when the survival of both was unclear. This classic text revolutionises social history, vividly narrating an era of wrenching hardships but also great victories in the workers' movement.