(Paperback)

Award-winning reporter 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. He shows how layoffs are in fact counterproductive, rarely promoting efficiency or profitability in the long term.

(Hardback)

From the longtime New York Times economics correspondent, a closely reported argument for the continuing importance of industry for American prosperity