Greenhouse, Steven, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, (2009)

Greenhouse, Steven, 2009, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, Anchor Books.

Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created the world's largest middle class and guaranteed job security and good pensions. We meet all kinds of workers-white-collar and blue-collar, high-tech and low-tech, middle-class and low-income-as we see shocking examples of injustice, including employees who are locked in during a hurricane of fired after suffering debilitating, on-the-job injuries.

Introduction
Chapter 1. Worked Over and Overworked
Chapter 2. Workplace Hell
Chapter 3. The Vise Tightens
Chapter 4. Downright Dickensian
Chapter 5. The Rise and Fall of the Social Contract
Chapter 6. Leaner and Meaner
Chapter 7. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Chapter 8: Wal-Mart, the Low-Wage Colossus
Chapter 9. Taking the High Road
Chapter 10. Overstressed and Overstretched
Chapter 11. Outsourced and Out of Luck
Chapter 12. The Lowest Rung
Chapter 13. The State of the Unions
Chapter 14. Starting Out Means a Steeper Climb
Chapter 15. The Not-So-Golden Years
Chapter 16. Lifting All Boats

なぜ、世界でもっとも豊かな国であるアメリカで、雇用者は企業からこんなにも搾り取られているのだろうか?ニューヨークタイムズ紙のリポーターであるSteven Greenhouseが、アメリカの職場を変化させつつある経済的、政治的、社会的トレンドを検証する。最も厚みのあるミドルクラスを創出し、仕事の安定性と高水準の年金を保障してきた社会的契約はなくなってしまった。あらゆる種類の労働者―ホワイトカラー、ブルーカラー、高技能、低技能、ミドルクラス、低所得層―の例から、職場でいかに「不正義」が存在しているかを示す。

"the American worker faces this squeeze...is troubling because the squeeze has occurred while the economy, corporate profits, and worker productivity have all been growing robustly"
「アメリカの労働者がこんなにも搾り取られているのは、問題である。なぜならば、経済、企業の利益、労働者の生産性が確実に伸びているにもかかわらず、この締め付けが起きているからである。」(1章より)