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Cut Loose Author: Victor Tan Chen

ISBN: 9780520283015 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 344 Published: 16 June 2015 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 Description: Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment.Cut Loose provides a vivid and moving account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of a historically important group: autoworkers. Their well-paid jobs on the assembly lines built a strong middle class in the decades after World War II. But today, they find themselves beleaguered in a changed economy of greater inequality and risk, one that favors the well-educatedor well-connected.

Their declining fortunes in recent decades tell us something about what the white-collar workforce should expect to see in the years ahead, as job-killing technologies and the shipping of work overseas take away even more good jobs.Cut Loose offers a poignant look at how the long-term unemployed struggle in today's unfair economy to support their families, rebuild their lives, and overcome the shame and self-blame they deal with on a daily basis. It is also a call to actiona blueprint for a new kind of politics, one that offers a measure of grace in a society of ruthless advanc...

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