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Layoffs have become a fact of life in today’s economy; initiated in the mid 1970s, they are now widely expected, and even accepted It doesn’t have to be that way.

In The Disposable American, award-winning reporter Louis Uchitelle offers an eye-opening account of layoffs in America–how they started, their questionable necessity, and their devastating psychological impact on individuals at all income levels. Through portraits of both executives and workers at companies such as Stanley Works, United Airlines, and Citigroup, Uchitelle shows how layoffs are in fact counterproductive, rarely promoting efficiency or profitability in the long term. Recognizing that a global competitive economy makes tightening necessary, Uchitelle offers specific recommendations for government policies that would encourage companies to avoid layoffs and help create jobs, benefiting workers, corporations, and the nation as a whole..
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Unending Struggle: The Long Road to an Equal Education in St. Louis, a new book by Judge Gerald W. Heaney and Dr. Susan Uchitelle, outlines the history of the desegregation process of St. Louis s public school system. Segregated schooling in Missouri did not come to an end until 1983, when the U.S. District Court decision Liddell v. Board of Education of St. Louis mandated desegregation. Unending Struggle recounts the history of St. Louis s struggle for an equal education for African Americans. Historical research and the authors personal experiences are interspersed with interviews that reveal the perspectives of students, teachers, administrators, and public officials who participated in the St. Louis metropolitan area desegregation program. Unending Struggle provides the historical background and a diversity of voices largely missing from the national debate on how to deliver equal education to African American children..
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Title: Layoff effects.(The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences)(Book review)
Author: Solidelle Fortier Wasser
Publication:Monthly Labor Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 130 Issue: 3 Page: 69(1)

Article Type: Book review

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The Disposable American is an eye-opening account of layoffs in America—their questionable necessity, their overuse, and their devastating impact on individuals at all income levels. Yet despite all this, they are accelerating.

The award-winning New York Times economics writer Louis Uchitelle explains how, in the mid-1970s, the first major layoffs, initiated as a limited response to the inroads of foreign competition, spread and multiplied, in time destroying the notion of job security and the dignity of work. We see how the barriers to layoffs tumbled, and how by the late 1990s the acquiescence was all but complete.

In a compelling narrative, the author traces the rise of job security in the United States to its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, and then the panicky U-turn. He describes the unraveling through the experiences of both executives and workers: three CEOs who ran the Stanley Works, the tool manufacturer, from 1968 through 2003, who gradually became more willing to engage in layoffs; highly skilled aircraft mechanics in Indianapolis discarded as United Airlines shut down a state-of-the-art maintenance facility, damaging the city as well as the workers; a human resources director at Citigroup, declared nonessential despite excellent performance; a banker in Connecticut lucky to find a lower-paying job in a state tourist office.

Uchitelle makes clear the ways in which layoffs are counterproductive, rarely promoting efficiency or profitability in the long term. He explains how our acquiescence encourages wasteful mergers, outsourcing, the shifting of production abroad, the loss of union protection, and wage stagnation. He argues against our ongoing public policy—inaugurated by Ronald Reagan and embraced by every president since—of subsidizing retraining for jobs that, in fact, do not exist. He breaks new ground in documenting the failure of these policies and in describing the significant psychological damage that the trauma of a layoff invariably inflicts, even on those soon reemployed. It is damage that, multiplied over millions of layoffs, is silently undermining the nation’s mental health.

While recognizing that in today’s global economy some layoffs must occur, the author passionately argues that government must step in with policies that encourage companies to restrict layoffs and must generate jobs to supplement the present shortfall.There are specific recommendations for achieving these goals and persuasive arguments that workers, business, and the nation will benefit as a result.

An urgent, essential book that tells for the first time the story of our long and gradual surrender to layoffs—from a writer who has covered the unwinding for nearly twenty years and who now bears witness.


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This digital document is an article from Multinational Monitor, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2006. The length of the article is 3499 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Disposable workers: Layoffs and Their Consequences.(an interview with Louis Uchitelle on labour and economics)(Interview)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication:Multinational Monitor (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 28 Issue: 4 Page: 28(5)

Article Type: Interview

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