The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences
September 21, Ithaca Campus
Louis Uchitelle
Business, labor and economics writer
The New York Times
Public Lecture & Reception
Thursday, September 21, 2006
4:30 – 6:00 pm
423 ILR Conference Center
Lou Uchitelle will discuss his new book, The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences. The award-winning New York Times economics writer explains how, in the mid-1970s, the first major layoffs, initiated as a limited response to the inroads of foreign competition spread and multiplied, in time destroying the notion of job security and the dignity of work. We see how the barriers to layoffs tumbled, and how by the late 1990s the acquiescence was all but complete.
Lou Uchitelle worked as a reporter, a foreign correspondent, and the editor of the business news department at the Associated Press before joining The New York Times in 1980. He has been writing about business, labor, and economics for the Times since 1987. He was the lead reporter for the Times series "The Downsizing of America," which won a George Polk Award in 1996. He has taught at Columbia University and was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York in 2002-2003.
