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Author:	Kathryn Marie Dudley	Format:	--
Publisher:	Univ of Chicago Pr	ISBN-10:	0226169103
ISBN-13:	9780226169101	Educational Level:	--
Product Type:	--	Publication Year:	--
Subject:	--	Language:	--
Condition:	Good

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Series:	Morality and Society Series

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Height:	9.3 in.
Width:	6.3 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	12.8 oz.

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An evocative and powerful portrait of America in transition, The End of the Line 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 twentieth century, Kenosha had forged its identity and politics around the interests of the auto industry. When nearly six thousand workers lost their jobs in the shutdown, the community faced not only a serious economic crisis but also a profound moral one. In this innovative 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 deindustrialization, were forced to undergo. Through interviews with displaced autoworkers and Kenosha's community leaders, high-school counselors, and a rising class of upwardly mobile professionals, Dudley dramatizes the lessons Kenoshans drew from the plant shutdown. When economic forces intrude on our lives, the resulting changes in earning power, status, and access to opportunity affect our sense of who we are, what we are worth, the nature of the world we live in, and in particular, what it takes to succeed. Dudley examines how ideas about self-worth - especially those based on market ideologies of competition and the Darwinian notion that only the fittest survive - become the subject of intense cultural conflict. Dudley describes a community in conflict with itself: while Kenosha's autoworkers struggle to regain an economic foothold and make sense of their suddenly devalued place in society, white-collar workers, professionals, and a new wave of politicians see themselves at thevanguard of a new moral order that redefines community as a "culture of mind" instead of the traditional "culture of hands" long associated with the work of the assembly line. This honest, moving portrait of one town's radical shift from a manufacturing to a postindustrial economy will redefine the way Americans across class lines think about our families, communities, and future.

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0226169103
Title : The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America (Morality and Society Series)
EAN : 9780226169101
Authors : Kathryn Marie Dudley
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : University Of Chicago Press
Publication Date : 1997-06-23
Pages : 250
List Price (MSRP) : 22.00
Height : 0.6000 inches
Width : 6.0000 inches
Length : 8.9000 inches
Weight : 0.8500 pounds
Keywords : United States, General AAS, Sociology, Unemployment, General, Rural, Transportation & Highway, Paperback, Printed Books
Condition : Good

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