Join authors Ben Tippet and Sarah Jaffe for a virtual conversation about Ben's latest book, Split: Class Divides Uncovered.

How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many food banks? We're supposed to go to college, build a career, get wealthier, buy a house -- but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve?

Split makes sense of our world by looking at class society -- delving into the deep-rooted economic inequalities that shape our lives, from the gig economy, rising debt, and the housing crisis that affects the majority of people, to the world of tax havens and unfair inheritance that affect the few. As Tippet argues, now is the time to fight back against the 1%.

Ben Tippet is an educator, activist, and writer. He is currently doing a PhD at the University of Greenwich, researching the causes of wealth inequality in the UK. He is a researcher for The Transnational Institute and has written for Novara, Stike! and Economy.

Sarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center fellow and an independent journalist covering labor, economic justice, social movements, politics, gender, and pop culture. Jaffe is the author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt and the forthcoming Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and many others. She is the co-host, with Michelle Chen, of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast, as well as a columnist at the New Republic and New Labor Forum.  She lives in Philadelphia.

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In Conversation: Sarah Jaffe & Ben Tippet