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Disconnected: How Six People from at&T Discovered the New Meaning of Work in a Downsized Corporate America
 
 

Disconnected: How Six People from at&T Discovered the New Meaning of Work in a Downsized Corporate America (Hardcover)

by Barbara Rudolph (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (4 May 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0684842661
  • ISBN-13: 978-0684842660
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,576,865 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Details life changes after being laid off from AT&T.

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I hoped to write the business book for Everyman (and woman).
"Disconnected tells the life stories of six people who had to reinvent themselves in the wake of losing their jobs at AT&T. These are moving, inspiring--and cautionary--tales. It's a book about the connection between work and identity-and what it means today to be a company man or woman in the new American workplace. Telling these stories was an emotional experience for me--and I hope that reading them will be an emotional experience for you, too.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A moving, sensitive, and compelling set of portraits..., 4 Sep 1998
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Barbara Rudolph has accomplished a very difficult task: she has completely humanized the relationships between people and their work, and has gotten six long-term, loyal employees of AT&T who were downsized (fired, dismissed) after many years of service to reveal their thoughts, feelings, fears and triumphs in the aftermath of that blow to their self-image, their self-esteem and their security. It is less an attack on America's corporate culture than it is a tribute to the essence of the people who are the real shapers of our economy and our culture. Rudolph, who according to the bio on the book,has been a business writer for major publications, obviously understands the corporate culture and sets her human stories in a very professionally rendered account of the changing nature of employment and of the corporation as family, then she introduces her subjects to fill in the important aspects of our attitudes toward work and the identities we shape through it. It's wonderful. And, I was first attracted ot the book by the back-cover blurbs from Richard Sennett and Earl Shorris, whose recommendations are once again justified.
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