Forced out
Subtitle: older workers confront job loss
By: Kenneth A. Root and Rosemarie Janet Park.
Contributors: Park, Rosemarie J.
Publisher: FirstForumPress, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781935049036
Subjects: United Defense (Firm) -- Case studies; Layoff systems -- United States -- Case studies; Unemployed -- United States -- Case studies; Displaced workers -- United States -- Case studies; Older people -- Employment -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What it means to lose a job; title: Downsizing at United Defense; title: Meet the men from UD; title: Forced out : first thoughts; title: The financial costs of termination; title: Being unemployed/discouraged workers; title: Older workers in the job hunt; title: Is self-employment viable?; title: Retiring from the work world; title: On the positive side of job loss; title: Years later : reflections on job loss; title: Manpower policy : a better way to ease job transitions.