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Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown - Couverture souple

Bruno, Robert

 
9780801486005: Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0801486009 ISBN 13 : 9780801486005
Editeur : ILR Press, 1999

Synopsis

For retired steelworkers in Youngstown, Ohio, the label "working class" fits comfortably. Questioning the widely held view that laborers in postwar America have adopted middle-class values, Robert Bruno shows that in this community a blue-collar identity has provided a positive focus for many residents.The son of a Youngstown steelworker, Bruno returned to his hometown seeking to understand the formation of his own working-class consciousness and the place of labor in the larger capitalist society. Drawing on interviews with dozens of former steelworkers and on research in local archives, Bruno explores the culture of the community, including such subjects as relations among co-workers, class antagonism, and attitudes toward authority. He describes how, because workers are often neighbors, the workplace takes on a feeling of neighborhood. He also demonstrates that to understand class consciousness one must look beyond the workplace, in this instance from Youngstown's front porches to its bowling alleys and voting booths. Written with a deeply personal approach, Steelworker Alley is a richly detailed look at workers which reveals the continuing strength of class relationships in America.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert Bruno is a Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and Director of the Labor Education Program in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is also Director of the School's Project for Middle Class Renewal. He is the author of Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown, also from Cornell, Justified by Work: Identity and the Meaning of Faith in Chicago's Working-Class Churches, and Reforming the Chicago Teamsters: The Local 705 Story.

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Éditeur
ILR Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801486009
ISBN 13 
9780801486005
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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