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Behind this profound change in the workplace are the impersonal market forces of the new global economy. Americans must now compete for jobs with the growing legions of skilled workers in developing economies from Asia to Eastern Europe. U.S. executives have taken to talking of global "market prices" for employees, as if they were investing in cattle futures. "We understand it's just business, but it's still awfully demeaning," says Deb Donaldson, a part-time retail sales clerk in Moline, Illinois. Manpower's Fromstein dismisses such complaints of exploitation, pointing out that his own profit margins are razor thin...
...transformation that merciless and profound is occurring in the American workplace. These are the great corporate clearances of the '90s, the ruthless, restructuring efficiencies. The American work force is being downsized and atomized. As the Scottish farmers were torn away from the soil, millions of Americans are being evicted from the working worlds that have sustained them, the jobs that gave them not only wages and health care and pensions but also a context, a sense of self-worth, a kind of identity. Work was the tribe. There were Sears men and GM workers and Anheuser-Busch people. There still...
...shoot-out. At the center were two hardworking fathers with firm convictions that they willingly put into practice. Both had experienced marital problems; both gave generously of their scarce free time to volunteer work. What separated them -- what kept them apart until it fused them in violence -- was a profound disagreement, a glitch in the moral geography that permits parallel lives not only to meet but to explode...
Some Americans Abroad is an appropriately imprecise title for such an unfocused play. It describes the experiences of some Americans abroad--nothing more profound than that. The Leverett and Lowell Art Societies' production entertains with its talented acting and direction, but an audience seeking bitter-sweet insight into the national psyche had better look elsewhere...
...present day West and Midwest and narrated by a young, unnamed heroin addict, the short stories in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son etch in steely detail a world where pain, violence and profound isolation are as regular as Happy Hour at the local bar. Beauty and horror alike commingle in visions of lyrical grace in the mind of the tortured hero. He ends the first story, "Car Crash," with a vivid hallucination and a cry to the reader: "And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help...