White-Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of Work and Its Rewards in Corporate America - Softcover

Fraser, Jill Andresky

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Synopsis

How corporate greed and mismanagement ate the American dream.

In the 1990s, before the bubble of the "miracle economy" burst, corporate America grew fat on the miseries of the American worker. Media attention has focused on dot-com disasters, massive layoffs, and explosions of corporate violence. But for those millions of Americans who have neither been laid off nor "gone postal," life at the office has become a nightmare: seven-day-a-week workloads; reduced salaries, pensions, and benefits; virtual enslavement to technology; and a pervasive fear about job security. With facts, figures, and telling case histories, the author chronicles this catastrophic sea change in industry after industry. Her book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of the American economy...or worried about his or her own job.

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About the Author

Jill Andresky Fraser is an editor at Inc. and Bloomberg Personal Finance. She has covered business for the New York Times, New York Observer, and Forbes. She lives in New York City.

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