The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker-Fast Shipping

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Why, in the world’s most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing theiremployees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporterSteven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transformingAmerica’s workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created theworld’s largest middle class and guaranteed job security and good pensions. We meetall kinds of workers—white-collar and blue-collar, high-tech and low-tech, middle-classand low-income—as we see shocking examples of injustice, including employees whoare locked in during a hurricane or fired after suffering debilitating, on-the-jobinjuries.

With pragmatic recommendations on what government, business and laborshould do to alleviate the economic crunch, The Big Squeeze is a balanced, consistentlyrevealing look at a major American crisis.