Think downsizing will solve your company’s financial woes? These harsh realities may make you think twice. 1. Significant indirect costs often wipe out the direct savings of layoffs. While layoffs may seem like a good way to...
Cowed by the financial crisis, American consumers are pulling back on their spending, all but guaranteeing that the economic situation will get worse before it gets better. In response to the falling value of their homes and high gasoline prices, Americans have become more frugal all year....
IRE members names in bold won recognition in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers' Best in Business competition: * Steve Harrison, Rick Rothacker, Andrew Shain, Mike Drummond, Ames Alexander, Stella M. Hopkins, Christopher Kirkpatrick and Tony Mecia, The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer for "Creditors, feds key to air...
Agriculture and natural resources Southgate, Douglas, Douglas H. Graham, and Luther Tweeten, The World Food Economy. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 416 pp., $94.85/ hardback, $44.95/paperback. Economic and social statistics Bandyopadhyay, P.K. and G.S. Gupta, Measuring Productivity in Services --New Dimensions. Hyderabad, India, The...
The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences. By Louis Uchitelle. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 283 pp., $25.95/hardback. In his book The Disposable American, Louis Uchitelle takes a narrative approach in conveying the problems of mass layoffs in America. Analyzing these problems and providing economic solutions would...
Byline: Louis Uchitelle Jan 09, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A US economist is challenging accepted economic theory. George Akerlof believes that economic theory should incorporate the diversity of human behaviour. The free market approach of...
The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences By Louis Uchitelle (Knopf, March 2006, $25.95) Since the 1970s, American employers and politicians have facilitated layoffs, tolerated them, or both. And according to veteran New York Times economics writer, Louis Uchitelle, the result is a "festering national crisis" that undermines worker...
THE DISPOSABLE AMERICAN: LAYOFFS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES BY LOUIS UCHITELLE Alfred A. Knopf, 283 pages, $25.95 ALL TOGETHER NOW: COMMON SENSE FOR A FAIR ECONOMY BY JARED BERNSTEIN Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 154 pages, $12.00 AMERICA BACK ON TRACK BY...
An Interview with Louis Uchitelle Louis Uchitelle is the author of The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences. He is a reporter with the New York Times, where he writes about business, labor and economics. He was the lead reporter for the Times...
The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences By Louis Uchitelle New York: Knopf, 2006 Greenleft Weekly P.O. Box 394, Broadway NSW 2007 AUSTRALIA ...
The Disposable American By Louis Uchitelle Alfred A. Knopf, $26.00 Among all the reporters who write about economics for the mainstream media, Louis Uchitelle is the indispensable iconoclast who covers corporate chief executives critically and working people sympathetically. If he seems like a throwback to an era when...
The story is all too familiar. Longtime employees of a corporation who once thought they were immune from layoffs are abruptly axed. Perhaps the employer has gone through a takeover, cut costs to boost earnings, or moved a division overseas to a low-wage nation. The emotional impact of...
Chipping away at human capital THE DISPOSABLE AMERICAN Layoffs and Their Consequences By Louis Uchitelle Knopf. $25.95. "PEOPLE WHO BASICALLY LOOK AT REALITY AS it exists, without hoping for it to change, and deal with the hand they are dealt, so to speak, they are the successful ones." That's...
In "The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences," author Louis Uchitelle says widespread layoffs among U.S. companies are taking a hidden psychological toll on Americans, resulting in what he calls an "anxious class." These workers suffer from downward mobility, loss of self-esteem, and income volatility. Have you worked with patients...
* Looking for a reason to be gloomy about the economy? Really looking? New York Times economics reporter Louis Uchitelle has just the thing to get you frowning. He tries to debunk the idea that the economy has been creating about 200,000 new jobs each month. After his debunking, it...
We live in a country where only 50 years ago a young, new hire could expect to have found a job for life. In the first years of the 21st century, however, mass layoffs, factory migrations and outsourcing have become the norm. But what are the real costs...
CURRENT AFFAIRS The Disposable American Louis Uchitelle Knopf Layoffs were supposed to help struggling American companies adjust to a changing world. One catch: they’ve permanently damaged job security, sparked ill-advised mergers, and eroded unions, health care, and pensions—while failing to solve the problems they were meant to address in the...
It's no secret that the gap between the rich and the poor has been growing, but the extent to which the richest are leaving everybody else behind is not widely known.... It's like chasing a speedboat with a rowboat. --Bob Herbert,...
In a grand opening befitting its upscale downtown Clayton location, St. Louis Title burst on the commercial real estate market scene, offering the St. Louis region a place to go for all commercial real estate transactions. Located at 7701 Forsyth Bvld., Suite 200, the new company already has its sights...
In a grand opening befitting its upscale downtown Claytonlocation, St. Louis Title burst on the commercial real estate marketscene, offering the St. Louis region a place to go for all commercialreal estate transactions. Located at 7701 Forsyth Bvld., Suite 200,the new company already has its sights on expansion. With Clayton...
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