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Redundancies upend people's lives, cause enormous stress, and lead to debilitating personal debt. The societal harm caused by mass layoffs has been known about for decades. Yet, we continue to do little to stop them. Why?

InWall Street's War on Workers, Les Leopold, co-founder of The Labor Institute, explains why mass layoffs occur and how our current laws and regulations allow companies to turn these layoffs into short-term financial gains. He provides a clear lens with which we should see how healthy corporations in the United States have used mass layoffs and stock buybacks to enrich shareholders at the expense of their employees.

Wall Street's War on Workersplaces U.S. labor practices in the broader context of social and political life, examining the impact financial strip-mining and legalized looting are having on party politics as well as society, destr

Wall Streets War on Workers

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Redundancies upend people's lives, cause enormous stress, and lead to debilitating personal debt. The societal harm caused by mass layoffs... Read more

    Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
    Publication Date: 1/25/2024
    ISBN13: 9781645022336, 978-1645022336
    ISBN10: 1645022331

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    Redundancies upend people's lives, cause enormous stress, and lead to debilitating personal debt. The societal harm caused by mass layoffs has been known about for decades. Yet, we continue to do little to stop them. Why?

    InWall Street's War on Workers, Les Leopold, co-founder of The Labor Institute, explains why mass layoffs occur and how our current laws and regulations allow companies to turn these layoffs into short-term financial gains. He provides a clear lens with which we should see how healthy corporations in the United States have used mass layoffs and stock buybacks to enrich shareholders at the expense of their employees.

    Wall Street's War on Workersplaces U.S. labor practices in the broader context of social and political life, examining the impact financial strip-mining and legalized looting are having on party politics as well as society, destr

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