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If you followed the stock market in the
1990s, or looked only at the corporate bottom line, it seemed
like the best of times. But look into the lives of most
working men and women, and surely we are living in the worst
of times. Media attention has focused either on the horrors
of massive layoffs or on episodic explosions of corporate
violence. But for those millions of Americans who have neither
been laid off nore "gone postal," life at the
office has become a corporate nightmare: seven-day-a-week
work loads; reduced salaries, pensions, or benefits; virtual
enslavement to technology; and a pervasive fear about job
security. What has happened to the American dream?
With facts, figures, and telling case histories,
Jill Andresky Fraser chronicles this catastrophic sea change
in industry after industry: telecommunications, the media,
banking, information technology, Wall Street. Her book is
essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of
the American economy... or worried about his or her own
job.
Jill Andresky Fraser has written on
business and finance for the New York Times, the
New York Observer, and Forbes magazine. She
is currently the finance editor of Inc. magazine
and a general editor of Bloomberg Personal Finance.
She lives with her husband and two children in New York
City and Montauk, New York.
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