Dr. Groeger's forthcoming book, "The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston" (Harvard University Press, Spring 2021) examines how schools became a central means of social mobility at the same moment that they became a new infrastructure for reproducing social inequality. Exemplified in the city of Boston in the early twentieth century, the transition to educated labor provided economic opportunities to many, but also allowed employers to undercut worker power and elites to control access to the most lucrative jobs. By obscuring the broader question of worker power in the economy, a focus on education as the primary means to remedy social inequality became a pernicious policy trap.