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The End of the Line Kathryn Marie Dudley

The End of the Line By Kathryn Marie Dudley

The End of the Line by Kathryn Marie Dudley


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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 town. Through interviews with displaced autoworkers and other members of the community it dramatizes the lessons Kenoshans drew from the plant shutdown.

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The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America by Kathryn Marie Dudley

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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CIN0226169103G
9780226169101
0226169103
The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America by Kathryn Marie Dudley
Used - Good
Paperback
The University of Chicago Press
19970623
250
N/A
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