As the economy fails to improve, as we chart the rise of the Tea Party and the Republican Party’s ability to express disdain for unemployment benefits without significant political cost, Americans lack a roadmap for the role of class and gender in the new American landscape. Joan Williams’ book, Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter (Harvard 2010), supplies that roadmap. The book creates an innovative framework for examining the relationship between law, work and family in the post-industrial economy.

Conservative economists say raising taxes will lead to lower employment. Low taxes already led to lower employment. With their track record, it’s probably safe to ignore them.

I need your help to name this new blog. I have a couple ideas that I’ll share, but I’m interested in hearing what you think FDL’s labor blog should be named.