1Huddle founder and Bring It In podcast host Sam Caucci’s second book is half manifesto, half business guide.

Caucci started in the workforce right after high school, determined to help his recently-widowed mother. He began in sports/fitness training, then moved into developing corporate training, and is now an adjunct professor for Rutger’s University’s Global Sports Business graduate school program. As a result, he’s seen many poorly-managed workplaces and badly-treated employees, which is a particular shame, he says, given how many hours we devote to work; “we give up so much of our lives so a few selfish assholes can be rich,” he exhorts.

Caucci describes his first book, 2015’s Not Our Job: How College Destroyed a Generation of Workers and How to Fix It as “a rant”; this follow-up treads the line between rant and manifesto. Caucci walks readers through some history of how humans have viewed work and its value and describes our current era as one where “the reality of work is pretty lousy for most workers.” People are paid less and working harder than previously; more likely to work in low-wage service industries; and are at the mercy of money-grubbing corporations. He provides relevant data to support these conclusions.

Caucci’s accusations span a broad number of targets, from unpredictable shift scheduling to gig work to mass incarceration. Unfortunately, no topic gets much of a deep dive, and some of the advice is patently unrealistic, as when he describes self-evaluations as a “control mechanism” from HR departments and instructs readers not to fill them out.

The book’s second part, dedicated to ideas for improving the work world isn’t particularly new but is refreshingly concrete, such the author’s suggestion about integrating training into every week of an employee’s year.

Readers will find fodder for thought here. But ultimately, this narrative is more successful reflecting the rage of a nation’s workers than in making new observations about or deepening readers’ understanding of their plight.