As goes Bethlehem : steelworkers and the restructuring of an industrial working class / Jill A. Schennum.

Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2023]

299 pages ; 23 cm

"Through the experiences and reflections of steelworkers, Jill Schennum demonstrates the significance of work, and particularly of industrial work, in giving meaning to people's lives, identities, and sense of worth. The importance of work space, time and social relations understood through workers' narratives and voices belies dominant interpretations of blue collar workers as alienated from their work, but well-paid and coopted by a middle-class standard of living. She covers 35 years of investment and disinvestment, managerial initiatives, transfer decisions, layoffs and downsizings, external transfers, the eventual bankruptcy of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and movement into retirement, unemployment, and new post industrial jobs"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Schennum, Jill A., 1956- As goes Bethlehem Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2023]

English

December 13, 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index.