Product Description: Root and Park examine the plight of paperworkers displaced from two mills - one in Sartell, Minnesota, and the other in Bucksport, Maine. The insightful, personal portraits they provide of these workers are representative of the hundreds who lost their jobs as a result of the closings...read more

Product Description: What happens to long-term employees when their jobs are unexpectedly eliminated? In this richly detailed study of a major layoff and its aftermath, Kenneth Root and Rosemarie Park address head-on the ramifications of job loss for older workers...read more