The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America

Good Jobs in America Robert P. Neuman is a retired college professor and management consultant This is the best history I've read of what the subtitle calls "The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America" from the 1930s until today. The "Rise" included corporate management's willingness to pay living wages and excellent benefits to placate trade unions and secure the long-term loyalty of employees. The "Fall" meant corporate management's all-out war on union labor and a shift in financial philosophy that declared company shareholders and the payment of regular dividends as the primary responsibilities of management. While he is crit. Immensely informative, intensely interesting A commendably exhaustive (but not in the least exhausting, as some scholarly efforts can be) chronology of the economic, social, and cultural trends that have shaped and changed the nature of employment in the United States over the last 100 years or so. By painting vivid (but not unduly detailed) portraits of key corporate leaders, as well as sharing numerous anecdotes from a variety of employees who worked at legendary icons of American industry, the entire book radiates an engaging humanity as it chronicles the passage of history in. Compelling Amazon Customer This is powerfully written and couldn't be more timely. It's meticulously researched and loaded with details that are thought-provoking and eye-opening. It's a must-read history for anyone who cares about the future of the country.

Productivity boomed. Charting the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s, the turbulent years of the '70s and '80s, and the growth of downsizing, outsourcing, and instability in the modern era, Wartzman's narrative is a biography of the American dream gone sideways. 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. Not anymore.In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American dream. By tracing the ups and downs of these four corporate icons over 70 years, Wartzman illustrates just how much has been lost: job security and steadily rising pay, guaranteed pensions, robust health benefits, and much more. But the corporate social contract didn't last. Deeply researched and compelling, The End of Loyalty will make you rethink how Americans can begin to resurrect the middle class.. 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