Jefferson Cowie's Stayin’ Alive: The 1970’s and the Last Days of the Working Class has received glowing reviews. But there are dissenting voices. Here is one of them. I know others as well, both in the US and in Canada.
http://www.firstofthemonth.org/archives/2011/03/that_70s_show.html
I Met Jefferson when we both taught in a program at UMass-Amherst one January. He's a smart guy. But I have been struck by how this book rubs smart people I know who have spent their lives waging class struggle the wrong way.