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Informationen zum Autor Christine J. Walley is associate professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park. Klappentext In 1980! the author's world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the ensuing years! ninety thousand other area residents would also lose their jobs in the mills. In this book! she examines the fate of her family and that of blue-collar America at large. "In the early years of Working-Class Studies, I worried that we sometimes valorized the personal without demanding that it generate political and scholarly analysis. With Walley's book, we see that this field has developed a signature genre: the hybrid of autobiography and scholarly analysis previously illustrated most effectively by Jack Metzgar in "Striking Steel" and Barbara Jensen in "Reading Classes". Such books go beyond telling working-class stories to demonstrate the critical practice of constructing theories of class through the analysis of experience. "Exit Zero" offers us both an engaging story and insightful analysis."--Sherry Linkon "Working-Class Studies " Zusammenfassung In 1980! the author's world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the ensuing years! ninety thousand other area residents would also lose their jobs in the mills. In this book! she examines the fate of her family and that of blue-collar America at large.
