The End of the Line - Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Marie Dudley, Dudley Kathryn Marie
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.1997
• EAN: 9780226169101
• ISBN: 978-0-226-16910-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 22 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 369 g
• Series: Morality and Society Series; Morality and Society (Paperbac; Morality and Society Series; Morality and Society Series (CHUP)
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation, Poverty & unemployment, Labour / income economics, United States of America, USA, Transport industries, Urban communities, Poverty and precarity, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Employment & Unemployment, Road Transport Industries