What should workers do when they get laid off? In 1998 a bleak, asinine bestseller told them to find another whey.  Where to find us: <ul><li><a href='https://www.fivefourpod.com/'>Peter's other podcast, 5-4</a></li><li><a href='https://www.maintenancephase.com/'>Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase</a></li></ul>Sources:<ul><li><a href='https://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/external/title/9780312658854/'>Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America</a></li><li><a href='https://www.russellsage.org/publications/downsizing-america-1'>Downsizing in America</a></li><li><a href='https://history.jhu.edu/faculty-books/temp-how-american-work-american-business-and-the-american-dream-became-temporary/'>Temp:  How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary</a></li><li><a href='https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/181481/the-disposable-american-by-louis-uchitelle/'>The Disposable American</a></li><li><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/books/obituary-spencer-johnson-dead-who-moved-my-cheese-author.html'>Spencer Johnson, ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ Author, Dies at 78</a></li><li><a href='https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-7643-7673-2_4'>What was the New Economy?</a></li><li><a href='https://web.archive.org/web/20040805000430/http://www.whomovedmycheese.com/change/articleDetails.asp?article=57'>Boss, Employees Share Large Cheese Platter</a></li><li><a href='https://web.archive.org/web/20040831152757/http://www.sptimes.com/News/081200/NorthPinellas/Tarpon_s_big_cheese_h.shtml'>Tarpon's big cheese has aides reading</a></li><li><a href='https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew-Schenkel/publication/292670928_Why_doesn't_downsizing_deliver_A_multi-level_model_integrating_downsizing_social_capital_dynamic_capabilities_and_firm_performance/links/5e9dba79a6fdcca789290344/Why-doesnt-downsizing-deliver-A-multi-level-model-integrating-downsizing-social-capital-dynamic-capabilities-and-firm-performance.pdf'>Why doesn’t downsizing deliver?</a></li><li><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/03/us/on-the-battlefields-of-business-millions-of-casualties.html'>On the Battlefields of Business, Millions of Casualties</a></li><li><a href='https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9909630/Jung_gsas.harvard_0084L_10511.pdf?sequence%3D1'>Shareholder Value and Workforce Downsizing, 1981-2006</a></li><li><a href='https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8WM1RPR'>Long-Term Earnings Losses Due to Job Separation During the 1982 Recession</a></li><li><a href='https://www.imps.ac.ir/uploads/human_resorce_5334.pdf#page=198'>Does Employee Downsizing Really Work?</a></li><li><a href='https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1120&context=economics-faculty-publications'>Layoffs, Top Executive Pay, and Firm Performance</a></li><li><a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317564567_Workforce_Downsizing_and_Shareholder_Value_Orientation_among_Executive_Managers_at_Large_US_Firms'>Emerging Conceptions of Work, Management and the Labor Market</a></li><li><a href='https://ideas.repec.org/a/inm/ororsc/v10y1999i1p69-82.html'>A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Why Organizations Downsize</a></li><li><a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247083721_Organizational_Downsizing_Constraining_Cloning_Learning'>Organizational Downsizing: Constraining, Cloning, Learning</a></li><li><a href='https://webuser.bus.umich.edu/gfdavis/Papers/Decline%20and%20Fall.pdf'>The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s</a></li></ul> Thanks to <a href='https://mindseye-music.bandcamp.com/track/the-place-beyond-the-clouds-2'>Mindseye</a> for our theme song!

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