01710nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200210008810000250010924500260013426000400016030000260020036500240022652011540025065000280140465000140143265000190144670000270146520211112091338.0211112b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a8170492769  cAL  aeng  223a327.73bRAMD  aCarlos Ramirez-Faria  aDownsizing of America  aNew DelhibManas Publicationsc2006  a436 p.bHBc25x16 cm.  b695.00c₹d695.00  aEvery day brings the startling and depressing headlines: "AT&T's Call: 40,000 Out"; "Delta Will Cut Up to 15,000 Jobs"; "IBM Chief Making Drastic New Cuts: 35,000 Jobs to Go"; "Sears Kills Catalog: 50,000 Jobs, 113 Stores Eliminated." The numbers add up: Since 1979, more than 43 million jobs have vanished. And while many more have been created, increasingly, the jobs that are disappearing are those of higher-paid, white-collar workers, and many of the new jobs pay much less than those they replaced.
What is going on?
To find out, The New York Times sent a team of reporters across the country, to interview workers and managers and owners alike, to see how they have survived the economic storms that have left a trail of anguish and upheaval. Their report, after a six-month investigation, originally appeared in a critically acclaimed seven-part series in The New York Times.
Now, expanded as a book, The Downsizing of America makes for riveting reading. It puts a human face on a historic predicament that is as ubiquitous as it is painful. It is a revealing look at an America in which the rules of the game seem to be drastically changed.  aInternational Relations  aGorbachev  aWorld Politics  aRAMIREZ-FARIA (Carlos)