| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
vii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-392) and index. |
| Contents |
The scramble for 58 million jobs -- Take this job and love it -- The making of industrial peace -- Smug nation -- Strains beneath the surface -- White male wanted -- The unraveling -- Going backward -- Living and dying by the numbers -- The betrayal -- The new face of capitalism. |
| Summary |
In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola--he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of the post-World War II economy, these companies also believed that worker pay needed to be kept high in order to preserve morale and keep the economy humming. Productivity boomed. But the corporate social contract didn't last. By tracing the ups and downs of these four corporate icons over seventy years, Wartzman illustrates just how much has been lost: job security and steadily rising pay, guaranteed pensions, robust health benefits, and much more. Charting the Golden Age of the 1950s and 1960s; the turbulent years of the 1970s and 1980s; and the growth of downsizing, outsourcing, and instability in the modern era, Wartzman's narrative is a biography of the American Dream gone sideways. Deeply researched and compelling, The End of Loyalty will make you rethink how Americans can begin to resurrect the middle class. |
| Subject |
Labor -- United States -- History.
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Industrial relations -- United States -- History.
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Corporations -- United States -- History.
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Industrial policy -- United States -- History.
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Labor policy -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
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Corporations. (OCoLC)fst00879777
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Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Industrial policy. (OCoLC)fst00971433
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Industrial relations. (OCoLC)fst00971609
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Labor. (OCoLC)fst00989798
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Labor policy. (OCoLC)fst00990116
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1945
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Wartzman, Rick. End of loyalty. First edition. New York : PublicAffairs, [2017] 9781586489151 (DLC) 2017011940 |
| ISBN |
9781586489144 (hardcover) |
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1586489143 (hardcover) |
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