Disconnected

The economy is booming, yet healthy, profitable companies continue to lay off hundreds of thousands of employees and downsizing has become a permanent part of the landscape of corporate America. In Disconnected, acclaimed journalist Barbara Rudolph puts a human face on this new economic reality, through intimate portraits of six people whose lives were irrevocably changed when they lost their jobs at AT & T. When they were cut loose from the corporate fold at AT & T - an American icon that once promised lifetime job security and claimed the unquestioning allegiance of its employees - these…