Louis Uchitelle covered economics and labor issues for the New York Times for twenty-five years. Before that, as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press, he covered the American occupation of the Dominican Republic in the 1960s and the rise of a guerrilla movement in Argentina. He is the author of Making It: Why Manufacturing Still Matters (The New Press) and The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences. He lives in Scarsdale, New York.