Downsizing in America

Downsizing in America
Title Downsizing in America PDF eBook
Author William J. Baumol
Publisher Russell Sage Foundation
Pages 332
Release 2003-06-26
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1610440315

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In the 1980s and early 1990s, a substantial number of U.S. companies announced major restructuring and downsizing. But we don't know exactly what changes in the U.S. and global economy triggered this phenomenon. Little research has been done on the underlying causes of downsizing. Did companies actually reduce the size of their workforces, or did they simply change the composition of their workforces by firing some kinds of workers and hiring others? Downsizing in America, one of the most comprehensive analyses of the subject to date, confronts all these questions, exploring three main issues: the extent to which firms actually downsized, the factors that triggered changes in firm size, and the consequences of downsizing. The authors show that much of the conventional wisdom regarding the spate of downsizing in the 1980s and 1990s is inaccurate. Nearly half of the large firms that announced major layoffs subsequently increased their workforce by more than 10 percent within two or three years. The only arena in which downsizing predominated appears to be the manufacturing sector-less than 20 percent of the U.S. workforce. Downsizing in America offers a range of compelling hypotheses to account for adoption of downsizing as an accepted business practice. In the short run, many companies experiencing difficulties due to decreased sales, cash flow problems, or declining securities prices reduced their workforces temporarily, expanding them again when business conditions improved. The most significant trigger leading to long-term downsizing was the rapid change in technology. Companies rid themselves of their least skilled workers and subsequently hired employees who were better prepared to work with new technology, which in some sectors reduced the size of firm at which production is most efficient. Baumol, Blinder, and Wolff also reveal what they call the dirty little secret of downsizing: it is profitable in part because it holds down wages. Downsizing in America shows that reducing employee rolls increased profits, since downsizing firms spent less money on wages relative to output, but it did not increase productivity. Nor did unions impede downsizing. The authors show that unionized industries were actually more likely to downsize in order to eliminate expensive union labor. In sum, downsizing transferred income from labor to capital-from workers to owners

The Downsizing of America

The Downsizing of America
Title The Downsizing of America PDF eBook
Author Ronald Ayling
Publisher Nova Publishers
Pages 188
Release 1997
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781560724315

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Downsizing of America

The Downsizing of America

The Downsizing of America
Title The Downsizing of America PDF eBook
Author New York Times
Publisher Three Rivers Press
Pages 372
Release 1996
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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The Downsizing of America is a fact filled investigative report telling the story of why millions of Americans are losing good jobs and why they are right to worry about the future

Downsizing the U.S.A.

Downsizing the U.S.A.
Title Downsizing the U.S.A. PDF eBook
Author Thomas H. Naylor
Publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Pages 300
Release 1997
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780802843302

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In this trenchant analysis of American society, Thomas Naylor and William Willimon take an unabashed stance against the belief that "bigger is better" and contend that there is a price to be paid for our uncritical affirmation of bigness.

The Downsizing of America

The Downsizing of America
Title The Downsizing of America PDF eBook
Author Louis Uchitelle
Publisher
Pages
Release 1996
Genre Downsizing of organizations
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The Downsized Warrior

The Downsized Warrior
Title The Downsized Warrior PDF eBook
Author David McCormick
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 288
Release 1998-02
Genre History
ISBN 9780814755846

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A former Army officer and Gulf War veteran takes a critical look at the adverse effects of downsizing on the U.S. Army. Though executed with compassion and precision, downsizing undermines morale and threatens the Army at its core. David McCormick demonstrates how the Army's experience in downsizing is instructive for all organizations--government, corporate, and nonprofit alike.

Downsizing Democracy

Downsizing Democracy
Title Downsizing Democracy PDF eBook
Author Matthew A. Crenson
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 375
Release 2020-03-03
Genre Political Science
ISBN 142143735X

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Originally publushed in 2002. In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy. Today, political change is effected through litigation, lobbying, and term limits, rather than active participation in the political process, resulting in narrow special interest groups dominating state and federal decision-making. At a time when an American's investment in the democratic process has largely been reduced to an annual contribution to a political party or organization, Downsizing Democracy offers a critical reassessment of American democracy.