The End of the Line : Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America Paperback / softback
by Kathryn Marie Dudley
Part of the Morality and Society Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
This volume tells the story of what the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, meant to the people who lived in that company town.
Since the early days of the 20th century, Kenosha had forged its identity and politics around the interests of the auto industry.
When nearly 6000 workers lost their jobs in the shutdown, the community faced not only a serious economic crisis but also a profound moral one.
In this study, Dudley describes the painful, often confusing process of change that residents of Kenosha, like the increasing number of Americans who are caught in the crossfire of de-industrialization, were forced to undergo.
Through interviews with displaced autoworkers and Kenosha's community leaders, high-school counsellors and a rising class of upwardly mobile professionals, Dudley dramatizes the lessons Kenoshans drew from the plant shutdown.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:250 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:23/06/1997
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- ISBN:9780226169101
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:250 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:23/06/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226169101
