The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America Audiobook (Free)

Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Wish. Not anymore.

With this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the partnership between American businesses and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers–General Motors, General Electric powered, Kodak, and Coca-Cola–he displays how big businesses once had taken responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with a range of sociable benefits. On the height of the post-World about THE FINISH of Devotion: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America War II overall economy, these companies also thought that worker pay out needed to be kept high in order to protect morale and keep the economy humming. Productivity boomed.

But the corporate and business social agreement didn’t last. By tracing the ups and downs of these four corporate and business symbols over seventy years, Wartzman illustrates just how much has been dropped: job protection and steadily increasing pay, assured pensions, robust health benefits, plus much more. Charting the Golden Age of the ’50s and ’60s; the turbulent many years of the ’70s and ’80s; as well as the development of downsizing, outsourcing, and instability in the present day period, Wartzman’s narrative is certainly a biography of the American Dream gone sideways.

Deeply researched and compelling, The End of Loyalty can make you rethink how Americans will start to resurrect the middle class.

Finalist for the LA Times book prize in current interestA best business reserve of the year in economics, Technique+Business