White Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of Work and Its Rewards in Corporate America

In the 1990s, before the bubble of the miracle economy burst, corporate America grew fat on the miseries of the American worker. Media attention has focused on dot.com disasters, massive layoffs and explosions of corporate violence. But for those Americans who have not been laid off or gone postal , life at the office has become a nightmare: seven-days-a-week workloads; reduced salaries, pensions, or benefits; virtual enslavement to technology; and a pervasive fear about job security. With facts, figures and trenchant case histories, Jill Fraser chronicles this catastrophic sea change in industry after industry - telecommunications, the media, banking and information technology - and looks at what has happened to the American dream.