Cannibalistic Capitalism  Cannibalistic CapitalismWhite-Collar
Sweatshop details the indignities of working in corporate
America, where workers are paying the price for increased
competition  By Jack Beatty  Compared to their peers thirty
years ago, America's 80 million white-collar employees are
working longer hours, for the same pay and fewer benefits, at
jobs that are markedly less secure, and for corporations that
regard firing whole ranks of employees as a way to post paper
gains and so win Wall Street's favor. The long arm of the job
has reached into employees' homes, their nights, their weekends,
and their vacations, as technology designed to make work less
onerous has made it more pervasive. America's insecure white-
collar workers are victims not of poverty, like the blue- and
pink-collar workers Barbara Ehrenreich writes about in Nickel
and Dimed (2001), but of progress. They are, Jill Andresky
Fraser writes in White-Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of
Work and Its Rewards in Corporate America, "s