The Magic City - Unemployment in a Working-Class Community

Gregory Pappas is a Fellow at the National Center for Health Statistics.

About the author

Gregory N. Pappas in an athelete, musician, masseur, and an author. He can often be seen running marathons, performing live music, typing feverishly, or sipping a perfect cup of coffee. When he is not writing, composing, or recording, he's usually reading up on his crafts. All of them. Greg also hails from Mobile, Alabama, putting him among the ranks of other fabled southern authors. You can see what he's up to next at http://inexplicablyconscious.com

Summary

Thirty-two million Americans have lost jobs because of permanent factory closings since 1970. Gregory Pappas here provides an intimate account of the economic, social, psychological, and medical consequences of one such closing.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Pappas
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.06.1989
• EAN: 9780801495489
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-9548-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Cornell Paperbacks; The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues; Cornell Paperbacks; The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues; Anthropology of Contemporary I
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries