LOUIS UCHITELLE worked as a reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for the Associated Press until he joined The New York Times in 1980 as a business editor; he has written about economics for the Times since 1987 and was designated Senior Writer in 1994, joining a select group honored for achievement. In the early 1990s his reporting on the former Soviet Union's plunge into capitalism earned him a Pulitzer nomination, and he shared a George Polk award as lead writer on the seven-part Times series, ""The Downsizing of America,"" in 1996. He taught feature writing at Columbia University and has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Uchitelle effectively wrecks the claim that all this downsizing makes the country more productive, more competitive, more flexible. . . . A strong case that the whole middle class is at risk. <br>-- The New York Times <br> The Disposable American is an overdue wake-up call that could start making the wisdom of layoffs that much less conventional. <br>-- San Francisco Chronicle <br> Incisive. . . . An airtight case against the common wisdom that favors job cuts. <br>-- BusinessWeek <br> Uchitelle writes about the moral failings of our modern corporate structure with deep and persuasive insight. That alone makes the book a must-read. -- Detroit Free Press